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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...