The tapir, the biggest land mammal in South America, has been spotted in Brazil's Costa Verde region 100 years after its last ...

It’s a girl! Point Defiance Zoo recently welcomed a rare and endangered Malayan tapir calf. Her name is Ume, which means plum blossom and apricot in Japanese. The zoo says her keeper staff chose the ...

If all goes well in a tapir tryst, the female likely will bear a single infant (or, very rarely, twins) 13 months later.

An endangered and rare Malayan tapir calf was born this weekend at Washington’s Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium. Only the second tapir birth there in more than a hundred years, the unnamed ...