Adult tapirs, with their large size, bristly hair, tough skin, and powerful kicks, are much less appealing to predators. The post Tapirs Have Survived Since the Eocene Thanks to This Clever Trick ...

Woodland Park Zoo just welcomed an adorable new addition to its family. Binti is a Malayan tapir. She’s almost two years old.

On the ground floor of Chinatown’s Four Points, LaGula — from the team behind The Hungry Tapir — is rewriting the rules of what a vegan eatery can be: part brun ...

The tapir is an unusual animal with a long history. It’s hard to miss, thanks to its stocky body and distinctive trunk-like snout. Even though tapirs live on land, your best bet for finding one ...

But Ume is a full month old now, and this tiny tapir is already determined to learn how to be a big tapir by doing big tapir things such as "eating" a tasty-looking chunk of sweet potato from her ...

New five-part series Parenthood, reveals the strategies that animal parents use to give their young a head start in life.

Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon are working to revive populations of the aguaje palm tree, commercially valued for its fruits, by shifting to more sustainable harvesting practices ...

Renowned for its natural beauty and ecological preservation, Costa Rica is ramping up efforts to become a contender in global film production ...

Hawke's Bay's Thomsen family rise from the mud after Cyclone Gabrielle. Another Cyclone Gabrielle milestone has been ticked off in the Hastings district as Matapiro Bridge near Crownthorpe ...

Corcovado is the natural habitat of iconic species like jaguars, tapirs, scarlet macaws, crocodiles and a vast range of monkey species, making it a prime location for nature documentaries ...