Yet, in the Americas and Asia, the tapir stands out as a strange-looking, trunked creature that demands attention. There are four species of tapir: the lowland, Baird's, mountain, and Malaysian tapir.

“The project funded by the Heritage Emergency Fund makes a significant contribution to local communities by recognizing and strengthening their vital role in fire prevention and control,” says Marlova ...

Woodland Park Zoo just welcomed an adorable new addition to its family. Binti is a Malayan tapir. She’s almost two years old.

His system of nomenclature and classification is fundamental to the study of not just evolution but of taxonomy and ...

New five-part series Parenthood, reveals the strategies that animal parents use to give their young a head start in life.

But Ume is a full month old now, and this tiny tapir is already determined to learn how to be a big tapir by doing big tapir things such as "eating" a tasty-looking chunk of sweet potato from her ...

But for the team of scientists watching anxiously, this fragile creature represented something far greater: the first successful natural reproduction of the critically endangered Yangtze sturgeon ...

A new look into Colorado's Dinosaur Ridge could shed light on how dinosaurs mated.

PITTSBURGH (WTAE) — The Pittsburgh Zoo and Aquarium has announced a record-breaking $10 million gift from anonymous donors. This donation marks the largest single gift in the zoo’s history ...

The donation will fund a new giraffe barn and a new exhibit on Indonesia, the zoo said.

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