Researchers have documented conflict between between a tapir and a dog in Mexico, highlighting the impact of encroaching human settlement on this living fossil species. Tapirs are a living fossil, ...

Experience the gentle and unique world of the tapir with this intimate close-up video. The footage focuses on the animal's face, highlighting its most distinctive feature: the short, prehensile trunk, ...

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.

MIAMI, Fla. (WFLA) — A Zoo Miami animal is back in its enclosure after briefly escaping on Tuesday morning. A Malayan tapir leaped from its habitat at around 7:45 a.m., WPLG reports. It was apparently ...

APPLE VALLEY, Minn. --This year, thousands of students from Minnesota are competing in the Minnesota Zoo's "Zooms STEM Design Challenge." About 120 team projects were selected to move on to this ...

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 ...

Agostina is a tapir that silently moves her heavy body while eating leaves in a forest in western Nicaragua, where she was released on Friday as part of a preservation effort. She was born in ...

TACOMA, Wash. — A Malayan tapir calf was recently born at Tacoma's Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium for the second time in over a century. The zoo has not yet released the calf's name or sex but said it ...

A baby Baird’s tapir was born Sept. 1 at the Metro Richmond Zoo, according to a Facebook post. Screengrab from Metro Richmond Zoo Facebook page A baby animal with an elephant-like trunk is calling a ...