A rare and endangered baby animal that looks like a “fuzzy watermelon” has a new name, and it’s also a fruit, a Washington ...
A rare and endangered Malayan tapir calf was born at Tacoma’s Point Defiance Zoo, the second tapir birth in the zoo’s ...
Credit: POINT DEFIANCE ZOO & AQUARIUM/Cover Images A rare and endangered Malayan tapir calf was born at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma, Washington on Sunday, 2 February 2025, only the second ...
Keepers say they are "thrilled" by the arrival of the little one, which was born covered in unique white spots and stripes.
It’s the second time a tapir, rare and endangered, has been born at the zoo since it opened 120 years ago, zoo officials said ...
An endangered baby animal that looks like a fuzzy “walking watermelon” was born at a Washington zoo. The white striped and ...
A rare Malayan tapir calf was born at Point Defiance Zoo over the weekend. This marks only the second time this has happened ...
A rare and endangered Malayan tapir calf was born there on Sunday, weighing an estimated 20 pounds. The event marked only the ...
Tapir calves typically nurse for a period of six months and stay with their mothers for as long as a year-and-a-half. Malayan tapirs, which are most closely related to horses and rhinos ...