Ume, a rare Malayan tapir, just turned one month old at Tacoma’s Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium. With her giant eyes and ...

“Little Ume sports the signature white spots and stripes of a newborn tapir, making her look like a tiny, fuzzy watermelon,” the zoo wrote online. Staff say mom and baby are thriving behind ...

Check out this super cute baby Malayan tapir which has been born at a zoo in Washington in America. Keepers say they are "thrilled" by the arrival of the little one, which was born covered in ...

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 toddler was attacked by a Brazilian tapir during a supervised visit within one of the enclosures at Dublin Zoo. The child's mother was also injured as she went to save her daughter.

A Malayan tapir calf was born at the Tacoma zoo on Feb. 2. Katie G. Cotterill Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium A rare and endangered baby animal that looks like a “fuzzy watermelon” has a new ...

Forests in Brazil have long been targets ... which also played a role in its decline. The tapir is a pig-shaped, plant-eating mammal with a short snout. The baby has spots and stripes that ...

Malayan tapirs are considered an endangered species with a European conservation breeding programme helping protect them from extinction. The brown and white fur helps provide camouflage for baby ...