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 ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) - Colorado Springs' Cheyenne Mountain Zoo (CMZoo) is celebrating World Tapir Day on April 27th by inviting visitors to meet Mochi, the mountain tapir. Zoo guests can ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – A familiar face is back on the mountain at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo after he spent some time catching some sun in LA. Mochi, a critically endangered Mountain Tapir, and ...

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.

An endangered Baird's Tapir has been born at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans. The zoo announced on Friday, July 9, that its three-year-old Baird's Tapir, Ixchel, had given birth to her first offspring.

A Washington zoo is saying goodbye to its last Malayan tapir before she moves to a new home in California, officials said. Ulan, the “prehistoric-looking” mammal, came to the Woodland Park Zoo in ...

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 ...

The tapir, South America's largest land mammal, plays a key role in maintaining the biodiversity of forests and wetlands. Conservation biologist Patrícia Medici works to protect this elusive species.