After 10 years of monitoring these elusive animals, researchers thought they knew what to expect — but not anymore.

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 ...

Like lots of baby animals, tapirs learn by watching their mom, which means that Ume is already picking up on important ...

“The spontaneous return of the tapirs is a sign that the forests of Rio de Janeiro are capable of sustaining large mammals again,” Marcelo Cupello, a biologist with INEA, told g1. Instituto ...

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 ...

Tapirs might be one of the largest land mammals in South America clocking in at an impressive 300 kilograms (661 pounds), but they have been noticeably absent from a region in Brazil for over 100 ...

This species is found in Asia in southern Myanmar and southern Thailand. Tapirs are herbivores and have long and flexible noses for snagging leaves and fruit, the zoo said. When they are babies ...

The latest addition to the Audubon Zoo was unveiled on Tuesday, and they call it, “Jaguar Jungle River’s Edge.” ...

What do horses, armadillos, sloths, and tapirs all have in common? They’re all animals, sure. They’re all mammals, too. But there’s something more striking, more special, about them: Around 500,000 ...

Located in the 4,330ha Sungai Dusun wildlife reserve, the centre is the only semi-wild sanctuary for Malayan tapirs (Tapirus indicus) in Malaysia. The centre focuses on conservation and ...

PUTRAJAYA: Two Malayan Tapirs are about to embark on a journey of their lives to Japan, where the animal is regarded as the “eater of nightmares”. Im, a two-year-old male tapir, and its mate ...