When you think of a trunked animal, you may think of the anteater or elephant. However, there's another species of trunked ...

Malaysia also has wildlife crossings, including animal box culverts at the West Coast Expressway, and several ecoducts (also ...

The Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium welcomed enthusiastic crowds Friday as Ume, a three-month-old Malayan tapir calf, made her highly anticipated public debut. “We wanted to come specifically to ...

In a remarkable turn of events, the South American tapir, once believed extinct in parts of Brazil, has been rediscovered in the Atlantic Forest. After nearly a century, camera traps captured ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma on Sunday welcomed a white striped and speckled Malayan tapir calf. It’s the second time a tapir, rare and endangered, has been born at the zoo since ...

Tapirs might be one of the largest land mammals in South America clocking in at an impressive 300 kilograms (661 pounds), but they have been noticeably absent from a region in Brazil for over 100 ...