Revealing the personality of an individual or an intimate group of animals in a thought-provoking or memorable way. Vishnu Gopal (India) records the moment a lowland tapir steps cautiously out of the ...

After over a century of being considered regionally extinct, the South American tapir was spotted alive and well in Brazil in ...

Baird’s tapirs are the largest animals native to Central America. They are slightly smaller, however, than their South American cousins, the lowland tapirs. Like all tapirs, this species has a ...

Tapirs get relaxing spa treatment at Peak Wildlife Park Lowland tapirs (also known as Brazilian or South American tapir) are large-bodied herbivores native to South America. They tend to be ...

The threatened lowland tapir. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 1, 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by W.J. Ripple at Oregon State University in ...