The South American tapir (Tapirus terrestrus), commonly called the Brazilian, lowland, maned, or the Amazonian tapir, is a South American species in the tapir family Tapiridae, within the order Perissodactyla (horses, rhinos, and tapirs), along with the mountain or woolly tapir (T. pinchaque) of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, Baird's tapir (T. bairdii) of Central America, Colombia, and Ecuador, and the Southeast Asian Malayan tapir (T. indicus), the only Old World Tapiridae representative. The lowland tapir is the largest native terrestrial mammal in the Amazon basin, and, after Baird's tapir, is the second largest extant species of tapir in South America. Both species are the two largest mammalian species overall on the continent.
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South of the Border with Disney (1942)
Jungle Cat (1960)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Spirits of the Rainforest (1993)
Amazon (1997)
Lost Worlds: Life in The Balance (2001)
Evan Almighty (2007)
Amazonia (2013)
Rio 2 (2014)
Columbia Wild Magic (2015)
Koati (2021)
Amazon Queen (2021)
Ainbo: Spirit of the Amazon (2021)
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The Wild Thornberrys (1998-2004)
Go, Diego, Go! (2005-2011)
The New World of Gnomes (1997)
Creature Comforts (2003-2007)
The Busy World of Richard Scarry (1994-1997)
Curious George (2006-present)
Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom Classics
Andes to Amazon (2000)
The Living Planet (1984)
Hostile Planet (2019)
Wild New World (2002)
Earthflight (2012)
The Flight of the Condor (1982)
Wild Brazil (2014)
The Living Edens (1997-2003)
Earth at Night in Color (2020)
Pantanal: Prairie of Great Waters (1986)
Stalking the Jaguar (2006)
Gremlins: Faces in the Forest (1998)
The Falls of Iguacu (2006)
Candamo: Journey Beyond Hell (2000)
Uakari: Secrets of the English Monkey (2009)
Hotel Armadillo (2017)
Zoo-opolis (1989)
The Jaguar: Eater of Souls (2001)
Web of the Spider Monkey (1995)
The Search for the World's Most Secret Animals (1989)
Secret Brazil (2012)
The Really Wild Show (1986-2006)
Untamed Americas (2012)
Life in the Balance (1991)
Islands in the Sky (1989)
Wild Peru (2018)
Baby Animals Around The World (2016)
Jaguars: Brazil's Supercats (2017)
Wild Kratts (2011-present)
Journey Into Amazonia (1999)
The Zoo (2017)
South America's Weirdest Animals (2020)
Anna's Wild Life (2011)
Wildest South America (1998)
Baby Animals in the Wild (2015)
Amazon Claws (2005)
Parrots' Paradise (2007)
Jaguar Adventure with Nigel Marven (2008)
Animal Park Summer Special (2016)
Brazil Untamed (2016)
World's Greatest Animal Encounters (2019)
Wild Latam (2020)
Austin Stevens: Adventures (2008)
Tribes, Predators and Me (2016-2017)
Baby Animals in Our World (2015)
The Ultimate Guide (1996-2002)
Hero 108 (2010-2012)
Untamed Amazonia (1997)
Hunters (1994)
The Americas (2025)
Parenthood (2025)
Predators' Prey (2005)
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