Endangered mammals. Among tapirs, pacas and peccaries

Foreword ...................5

What is a mammal?..................... 6

Perissodactyls, Artiodactyls ... 8

and Rodents.................................. 8

Baird’s Tapir ............. 10

Tapirus bairdii

What does it look like? .......... 10

Where does it live?.................. 14

What do they eat?................... 16

Activity 1: Word search.......... 17

Which are its enemies?........... 18

What does it look like?........... 21

Paca........................ 21

Agouti paca

Where do they live? ...............22

What do they eat? ..................24

Which are its enemies?...........26

What does it look like?...........29

Collared Peccary.......... 29

Pecari tajacu

Where do they live?.................33

What do they eat? ..................34

Which are its enemies?...........36

How can I help to protect them?...................... 38

Why are they endangered?....38

How can we help them?........... 41