With their drooping noses, rotund bodies and vegetarian diets, tapirs are quite a sight. These elusive hoofed mammals are widely considered to be calm and gentle, naturally inclined to run and hide ...

TACOMA, Wash. — Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium announced the name and gender of their rare and endangered Malayan tapir calf Tuesday. It's a girl! Staff at the Tacoma zoo made the name and gender ...

TACOMA, Wash. — Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium (PDZA) welcomed a special new baby to its family in Tacoma over the weekend. A rare and endangered Malayan tapir calf was born there on Sunday, weighing ...

HOUSTON — South America’s Pantanal at the Houston Zoo just got a whole lot cuter after welcoming a baby Baird’s tapir. The female calf was born on July 23 to mom Moli and dad Noah, weighing 18 pounds.

A rare and endangered baby animal that looks like a “fuzzy watermelon” has a new name, and it’s also a fruit, a Washington zoo said. The white striped and speckled Malayan tapir calf was named Ume, ...

In January 2025, a truly remarkable event unfolded in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest: the South American tapir, a mammal thought to have disappeared from the region more than a century ago, was spotted ...

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, concealed ...

Houston Zoo guests are now able to see the zoo's newest addition, a baby Baird’s tapir born in late July. The baby, who has not yet been named, joined the mixed-species habitat exhibit Monday, ...