They may be the largest living land mammals of the Americas with few predators, but for the few thousand wild tapirs left in the world the future looks bleak. Over the last 30 million years, the ...

Baku, a Malayan tapir, can now be seen at Point Defiance Zoo. Courtesy of Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium A Malayan tapir now lives at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium, and visitors can see the ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Cheyenne Mountain Zoo (CMZ) is mourning the loss of two rare and endangered animals. The Colorado Springs zoo said its 19-year-old mountain tapir Cofan and 14-year-old ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When Rinny and Benny move into their new digs next year, they’ll take a little piece of history with them. No, tapirs — like Rinny and Benny — don’t ...

PANAMA CITY BEACH — Resembling a mix between an anteater, horse and hippo, Tug Mutton the Baird's tapir recently joined the ranks at ZooWorld. Native to Central America, tapirs are herbivores and ...

Shortly after 10 a.m. Friday, Carlotta, a mountain tapir, strolled into her new home at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. The 21-year-old female, native to South America, sniffed around a bit in her remodeled ...

Tapirs are very charismatic, yet not many people know much about these species. Evolutionarily, tapirs represent a unique taxonomic group; they have retained most of their prehistoric anatomical ...

World Tapir Day is observed every year on April 27 to raise awareness about tapirs, one of the world's most unique and ancient animals. In 2025, World Tapir Day will again remind people why it is ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The past few years there has been a dedicated lobbying/promotional campaign among local amateur naturalists, professional conservationists, and ...

Editor’s Note: Each week in “Apparently This Matters,” CNN’s Jarrett Bellini applies his warped sensibilities to trending topics in social media and random items of interest on the Web. Baby animals, ...

HULU SELANGOR: A total of 112 Malayan tapirs have been killed in road accidents nationwide from 2020 to 2024. Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability Minister Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad said the ...