If you've never seen a lowland tapir, you're not alone. Most of the people who live near its home in Brazil, the world's largest freshwater wetland known as the Pantanal, have never seen one, either. Resembling a diminutive hornless rhino with a long, flexible snout it uses like a snorkel and four hoofed feet, these shy loners are hard to find, which makes them hard to save-and the tapir is rapidly disappearing. While many of us may never see a tapir in the wild, we'll miss them when they're gone-for if the tapir vanishes, the forests it helps to germinate will suffer. But not if field scientist Pati Medici has anything to say about it. Sibert Medalist Sy Montgomery and veteran Scientists in the Field photographer Nic Bishop are your guides on this bushwhacking expedition to find the weird and wonderful tapir and reveal its mysteries to a world only just beginning to understand it.