Mochi the mountain tapir-one of only three of the critically endangered creatures in the entire United States-celebrated his ...

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 ...

The Brazilian tapir has a long and flexible snout which helps them to feed on leaves, buds, shoots, fruit, grass and aquatic plants. They generally feed only at night, hiding in the cool forest ...

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 ...

Ume is a white striped and speckled Malayan tapir calf that was born Feb. 2 at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma. Her name means plum blossom and apricot in Japanese. Since then she has ...

The white striped and speckled Malayan tapir calf was born Feb. 2 at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma, the zoo said in a news release. It’s the second time a tapir has been born at the ...

Here, Bumi, a four-month-old Malayan tapir, cautiously approaches the curious humans gathered outside his enclosure, his snout gently nuzzling his mother Eli’s side. Born on Feb 12, Bumi is the ...

The white striped and speckled Malayan tapir calf was named Ume, the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma wrote in a Feb. 11 Facebook post. In Japanese, Ume means plum blossom and apricot ...