Researchers have documented conflict between between a tapir and a dog in Mexico, highlighting the impact of encroaching human settlement on this living fossil species. Tapirs are a living fossil, ...

Meet Rosie, a baby tapir and the newest member of the Miller Zoo family. Rosie was born on August 21 and got to enjoy her ...

I received the following email from my grandson Parker, who was on a field trip in Central America: “While walking a trail in Belize after dark, a member of our group spotted a faint eyeshine from ...

The San Diego Zoo has announced that female Baird’s tapir Luna gave birth to a female calf in early June — and the baby needs a name. The prehensile-nosed calf and her mother can now be seen sharing a ...

The tapir’s role as a keystone species includes seed dispersal, ecosystem engineering, and … feeding the forest with its poop ...

A few days ago, a Costa Rican tour guide named Dionisio Paniagua stumbled upon an interaction between two unlikely wild friends that stopped him in his tracks. Paniagua watched in silence as a curious ...

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 ...

Houston Zoo guests are now able to see the zoo's newest addition, a baby Baird's tapir born in late July. The baby, who has not yet been named, joined the mixed-species habitat exhibit Monday, ...

The male Malayan tapir breached his habitat early Tuesday morning but was successfully captured an hour later, the Florida zoo said Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been ...

Ever since Ume the Malayan tapir was born at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma, Washington, last month, the baby animal-loving side of the internet (and let's be honest, that's everybody) ...