An aroused tapir’s manhood is so “large and ungainly,” Stancer says, “I actually have seen the male step on it and scream.” Maneuvering the organ into mating position involves many ...

A Species Thought Lost Returns For more than 100 years, the South American tapir (Tapirus terrestris) had been missing from the Atlantic Forest, a once vast biome now reduced to fragments due to ...

Roughly halfway through her gestation period — typically around 13 and a half months for Malayan tapirs — Sempurna is getting “more irritable” toward her mating partner, according to Godwin.

It was caught on tape-ir. After over a century of being considered regionally extinct, the South American tapir was spotted alive and well in Brazil in footage blowing up online. In January ...

Ume is a white striped and speckled Malayan tapir calf that was born Feb. 2 at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma. Her name means plum blossom and apricot in Japanese. Since then she has ...

Only the second tapir birth there in more than a hundred years, the unnamed newborn resembles a “fuzzy, walking watermelon.” “Exciting news! We’re thrilled to announce that tapir Yuna gave ...

The white striped and speckled Malayan tapir calf was named Ume, the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma wrote in a Feb. 11 Facebook post. In Japanese, Ume means plum blossom and apricot ...

TACOMA, Wash. — A Malayan tapir calf was recently born at Tacoma's Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium for the second time in over a century. The zoo has not yet released the calf's name or sex but ...