Tapirs are decidedly cool creatures, so learning of various conservation threats to them is vexing. As the Tapir Specialist Group notes, “Because of their enormous size and large range, ...

The South American tapir, one of the largest land mammals on the continent, has resurfaced in the Atlantic Forest for the first time in over a century. Scientists captured footage of not just one ...

It’s a girl! Point Defiance Zoo recently welcomed a rare and endangered Malayan tapir calf. Her name is Ume, which means plum blossom and apricot in Japanese. The zoo says her keeper staff chose ...

If you look at a Baird’s Tapir, you might think it’s a smaller version of a hippopotamus. However, its closest relatives are actually horses and rhinos. Skip to content. WKRN News 2.

The tapir is making its new home at the Toyota Elephant Passage which recently opened to the public on June 1. The tapir is named "Renny" and she was only out of her pen for five minutes.

Luna, a Baird’s tapir at the San Diego Zoo, is a new mom. In a video recently released by the zoo, Luna follows her curious calf — a female, born June 3 — as she explores her habitat.

Tapir Breaks Out of Zoo, Gets Stuck in Palace Pond. The heavy, trunk-nosed animal squirmed and wiggled, making the rescue a difficult one. By Heather Brady. August 31, 2017.

While tapir fossils dating back over 100,000 years are known from China, the animals were thought to be extinct in the country before 2,200 years ago.

With his big ears, long nose and dumpy body, Lajas the baby tapir is not the prettiest animal at his zoo. But the endangered tapir has already got a following.

A Malay tapir – a species that is endangered in the wild – has been born at Edinburgh Zoo. The female calf, named Maya, was born to mother Sayang and father Mowgli and has been finding her feet.