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🗓️ 2 May 2020
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0:24.0 | This is is Scientific Americans 60 Second Science. |
0:27.0 | I'm Jason Goldman. |
0:29.0 | The Amazon Rain Forest is under threat. |
0:32.0 | Fragmentation, fires, and climate change are just a few of the hazards. |
0:37.0 | In natural intact forests, animals that eat fruits help to keep the forest in a constant state of regeneration since they deposit |
0:45.6 | seeds in their droppings as they travel. Could the same process help restore areas degraded |
0:50.9 | by fire? |
0:51.9 | So there are a lot of tapis walking around, they study area, |
0:56.2 | and they of course poop a lot because they are huge avars. |
1:00.9 | Lucas Paoulucci from Brazil's Amazon Environmental Research Institute. |
1:06.1 | So our team asked whether they could be walking around and eventually helping to reforce this area through their poops and of course the seeds that are within it. |
1:18.0 | Tapers are the largest terrestrial mammals left in the Amazon rainforest. |
1:24.0 | Imagine a 500 pound pig, but with a small elephant trunk on its face. |
1:30.0 | That's sort of what a lowland taper looks like. |
1:33.4 | The species is threatened with extinction, but certain areas still have quite a few tapirs |
1:38.4 | roaming around. |
1:40.4 | Using a combination of camera traps, aerial imagery, and field observations, the researchers measured the density and abundance of taper droppings in three different parts of the rainforest over the course of seven years. One test plot was |
1:54.5 | experimentally burned each year, one was burned every three years, and one was |
1:59.6 | left completely intact. We saw that tape was occurring two times more often in the disturbed areas than the unburned plots and also it's persons three times more seeds. |
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