It all went down on January 12 when the mother tapir, Houston, finally gave birth to her cute little baby boy, Felix. There was no mention of daddy tapir during this miracle, but it’s safe to ...

Star Tribune, December 28, 2010 . Endangered tapir is on Minnesota mating mission By Paul Walsh. Tapir (TAY-purr): n. any of several large, hoofed, hoglike mammals of tropical America and the Malayan ...

Carlotta and Cofan are the two mountain tapir at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. They are only two of seven mountain tapir in the U.S., and 2,500 left in South America. They ...

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 ...

Tapirs are decidedly cool creatures, so learning of various conservation threats to them is vexing. As the Tapir Specialist Group notes, “Because of their enormous size and large range, ...

Growing up to 700 pounds, the South American tapir, or lowland tapir, is a vital member of rainforest ecosystems. These cartoonish critters become known as “forest gardeners” due to their ...

Happy World Tapir Day! Celebrate with One of the Cutest New Additions to the Tapir Kingdom. The baby lives at the Newquay Zoo with her parents and a capybara named Johnson. By. Kelli Bender.

Camera trap photo of a tapir and a domestic dog in southern Mexico. Researchers have documented conflict between between a tapir and a dog in Mexico, highlighting the impact of encroaching human ...

The Zoo Miami tapir's escape comes on the heels of other alarming zoo incidents. On Feb. 2, a rare Eurasian eagle owl named Flaco went missing from his exhibit at New York City's Central Park Zoo ...

Carlotta and Cofan are the two mountain tapir at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. They are only two of seven mountain tapir in the U.S., and 2,500 left in South America. They ...