According to the researchers, the study has provided a crucial foundation for the future protection of species, including the near-threatened South American tapir.

Pachyderm House: Eastern black rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses, and South American tapirs.

Among South America's extant, native land animals, only the Baird's and South American tapirs are heavier than this species.

Elsewhere there are armadillos, South American Tapirs and Plains Viscachas, as well as birds (more than 340 species).

The spectacled bears currently share a large enclosure with four other species: capybara, Oriental small-clawed otters, brown capuchin monkeys and South American tapirs.

The South American tapir can be found near water in the Amazon Rainforest and River Basin in South America, east of the Andes.

Like the other Latin American tapirs (the mountain tapir and the South American tapir), Baird's tapir is commonly called danta by people in all areas.

The South American tapir is generally recognized as an endangered animal species, with the species being designated as endangered by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service on June 2, 1970.

The fauna of the park includes several endangered species: jaguar, jaguarundi, South American Tapir, Ocelot, tirica, anteater, pavas de monte, the Harpy Eagle, and the Yacare Caiman.

Most important (in descending order) are Nine-banded Armadillo, Paca, South American Tapir, Capuchin monkey, White-lipped Peccary, South American Coati, Red Brocket, and Tegu lizards.

Other animals in Dublin Zoo's collection that are not part of a specific themed area include snow leopards, Bornean orangutans, Chilean Flamingos, meerkats, red pandas, South American tapirs, mara, little egrets and waldrapp ibis.

Some groups disappeared over most or all of their original range but survived in their adopted homes, e.g. South American tapirs, camelids and tremarctine bears (cougars and jaguars may have been temporarily reduced to South American refugia also).