Science Scan: Saving the tapir, ‘nature’s shyest loners’; what makes food delicious

Imagine a pig. Give it a short, flexible trunk. Now hide it in Brazil’s wild wetlands, where it can feed on leaves and fruit, swim in freshwater pools and live in quiet solitude.
This is the Brazilian tapir, an odd-looking animal related to horses and rhinos, and known as much for being a recluse as a relic of prehistory, having changed little in appearance or behavior in tens of millions of years.
Science Scan: Saving the tapir, ‘nature’s shyest loners’; what makes food delicious