Staff at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium are getting ready for a new baby. Yuna, a 9-year-old Malayan tapir, is pregnant. Tapirs, according to the Tapir Specialist Group, are rare mammals that are ...

The Woodland Park Zoo has welcomed a new male Malayan tapir named Tuah, who arrived from the Minnesota Zoo as part of a survival breeding plan. The name “Tuah” means “good fortune or luck” in Malay, ...

MIAMI – Zoo Miami is celebrating the birth of an endangered Malayan tapir, marking the first successful birth of the species at the zoo in 18 years, Communications Director Ron Magill confirmed ...

It was caught on tape-ir. After over a century of being considered regionally extinct, the South American tapir was spotted ...

For over a hundred years, the South American tapir (Tapirus terrestris) was thought to have vanished from Brazil’s coastal Atlantic Forest. But now, in an extraordinary twist, hidden trail cameras ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A “fuzzy watermelon”-looking animal in Washington is winning over the hearts of people on social media. Ume is a white striped and ...

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 ...

Woodland Park Zoo (WPZ) is preparing to say goodbye to its last remaining Malayan tapir, Ulan, at the end of August. Her last day for visitors will be Aug. 27. The 12-year-old is headed to Fresno ...

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 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. We may wrinkle our noses at the thought of eating at a public toilet. But in the forests of Brazil, tapir toilets are important buffet centers for ...

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 ...