Tapirs are elusive, herbivorous mammals with distinctive prehensile snouts that inhabit the forests of Central and South ...

It was caught on tape-ir. After over a century of being considered regionally extinct, the South American tapir was spotted alive and well in Brazil in footage blowing up online. In January ...

The white striped and speckled Malayan tapir calf was born Feb. 2 at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma, the zoo said in a news release. It’s the second time a tapir has been born at the ...

Ume is a white striped and speckled Malayan tapir calf that was born Feb. 2 at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma. Her name means plum blossom and apricot in Japanese. Since then she has ...

It’s the order of mammals that includes rhinos (three toes), horses (one hoofed toe), and tapirs (three toes in back and four toes in front). Extra toes are an evolutionary advantage that helps ...

SETIU: Residents of Kg Jelapang were shocked to discover a male tapir weighing 220kg trapped after falling into a water-filled ditch on Wednesday (Dec 18). A resident, Wan Zahhar Wan Zakaria ...

The white striped and speckled Malayan tapir calf was named Ume, the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma wrote in a Feb. 11 Facebook post. In Japanese, Ume means plum blossom and apricot ...

An endangered and rare Malayan tapir calf was born this weekend at Washington’s Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium. Only the second tapir birth there in more than a hundred years, the unnamed newborn ...