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20 June 1997

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TAPIR TALK   -  20 June 1997   -   Vol. 1, No. 33

Contents of this issue
    1. Patricia's Tapir Project, Brazil
    2. Black Lion Tamarin Project, Brazil
    3. Kill traps for tapirs in Brazil
    4. Tapirs . . . "over the rainbow"




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Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 09:29:48 -0300 (EST)
From: "Liviam E. Cordeiro" 
To: tapir@TAPIRBACK.COM
Subject: Tapir Talk - Patricia

Hi all,
Here is Patricia!
This is for Leonardo, my neighbor!!!!
Yes...Morro do Diabo is really a very exciting study area. I
just love this place. Well, you asked me if it's my professional research, 
Ph.D. research, Masters research, or undergraduate research. It's a very
confuse storie! I came to Morro do Diabo two years ago when I finished
the College. I'm a Forest Engineer. And, I came to study Black-Lion-
Tamarins, a very endangered primate species in Brazil, specifically
in Sao Paulo State. After one year, we decided to start a Tapir
Project in the Park. I was already very interested about Ungulates,
specially Tapirs, and then I decided to conduct both the Projects.
And that's what I'm doing now. I spend two weeks with the Tamarins
and two weeks with the Tapirs. The Tamarins Project is very interesting.
We are collecting data about behaviour and home range of a translocated
group. That was the first experience with translocations of Black-Lion-
Tamarins. We already have two years of very good data about the 
translocated group, so, I'll use those data for my Masters next year
here in Brazil. Anyway, I'll continue working with the Tapirs and I
intend to use those data for my Ph.D.. The Tapir Project will be
for sure a long term project, so I'll work on it maybe during the next
two or three years, before the Ph.D.. My advisor is Claudio Padua, the
Executive Director of my Institution (Ecological Research Institute -
a brazilian NGO).
Thank you for all the information. I'll start keeping records like you 
suggested me to do. It's possible to take some teeth out of the Tapirs
carcasses. I already have a number of them.
Tell me about your work. I still don't know what you are doing!!!!
Best wishes from Brazil...
Tapir Hugs
Tchau!!!
Patricia

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X-ROUTED: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 11:31:44 -0500
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1904 10:49:36 +0000
From: Richard Hartley 
Reply-To: gordon@provider.com.br
Organization: Personal
To: tapir@tapirback.com
Subject: tapir talk

Hello Sheryl and all,
The trap you mention (6/13) is a large "laso" trap. Unfortunately, I 
am becoming all too familiar with hunters' traps in my work here in 
Bahia, Brasil. In the region where I am working (Itubera), these traps 
are used to kill small game (almost all that there is left !) - mostly 
tatu (armadillo sp.), Didelphis marsupialis, paca, cutia (Dasyprocta 
agouti), etc. These traps are usually baited with bananas and jack 
fruit. The traps don't look very capable of delivering a death blow 
until you see one triggered. Still, it does seem an odd way to kill a 
tapir. This style of trap is only one of four I have found. Another 
trap consists of a rifle mounted on two sticks with a trip wire and 
the barrel aimed at an animal trail. This could probably be used to 
kill a tapir. Whatever the hunters in this area did use to kill tapirs 
was very effective and tapirs were extirpated from this area about 20 
years ago (by the previous generation of hunters), although 
occassionally people say that they still might exist in another river 
basin or forest patch ("somewhere over the rainbow,...).
              Kevin F.F.


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