Meanwhile, Arctic wolves - less attuned to heatwaves - tucked into ice lollies made from blood. "We get lots of meat, and ...

The Amazon Rainforest is home to some of the most exotic and beautiful animal life on the planet. Recently, scientists have ...

The tapir is an unusual animal with a long history. It’s hard to miss, thanks to its stocky body and distinctive trunk-like ...

The Baird’s tapir is an endangered species native to Mexico and Central America and resembles an anteater because of its snout. Contessa was brought to Tucson from a New Jersey zoo in 2011 to ...

“I had my headlamp on, and when I turned a corner, there was a tapir,” Kinnaird said, startled by the large, herbivorous mammal with a short, prehensile nose trunk. “It must have been 15 yards from me ...

The snout is packed with tiny sensors that can detect movement in murky water, making it a clever and effective tool for hunting underwater. Tapirs have a small, trunk-like nose that works almost ...

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 ...

TODAY’S WORD — TAPIRS (TAPIRS: TAY-pers: Large, herbivorous mammals with short, flexible nose trunks.) Average mark 17 words Time limit 30 minutes Can you find 25 or more words in TAPIRS?

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 ...

Only the second tapir birth there in more than a hundred ... media showed its tiny perked up ears and curious, sniffing snout. Its sex was not identified. Laying down next to its 10-year-old ...

rotund body and drooping trunk-like nose. Malayan tapirs are solitary, largely nocturnal and exclusively plant-eating mammals reaching over 8 feet in length, according to wildlife officials.