There is no doubt that the little tapir in this adorable Instagram post is enjoying dinner, though he was perhaps never ...

With fewer than 800 left in Peninsular Malaysia, the Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus) is categorised as an endangered species. With a nickname the “panda of South-East Asia” due to its black and white ...

TACOMA, Wash. — Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium (PDZA) welcomed a special new baby to its family in Tacoma over the weekend. A rare and endangered Malayan tapir calf was born there on Sunday, weighing ...

Tapir Trails, a three-day tapir conservation awareness campaign, will be held from Oct 31 to Nov 2, at Cheras Leisure Mall.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Cheyenne Mountain Zoo (CMZ) is mourning the loss of two rare and endangered animals. The Colorado Springs zoo said its 19-year-old mountain tapir Cofan and 14-year-old ...

Camera traps bring you closer to the secretive natural world and are an important conservation tool to study wildlife. This week we’re meeting one of the largest mammals in South America: the lowland ...

The Houston Zoo is showing off its newest resident: a cute little male Baird’s tapir born last weekend. He is the first tapir born at the Houston Zoo and the first baby for mother Moli and dad Noah.

At 5 a.m., six keepers file into the Houston Zoo's commissary kitchen and spend the next five hours chopping produce, ...

MIAMI, Fla. (WFLA) — A Zoo Miami animal is back in its enclosure after briefly escaping on Tuesday morning. A Malayan tapir leaped from its habitat at around 7:45 a.m., WPLG reports. It was apparently ...

The Houston Zoo introduced four of its new baby animals that visitors can see in enclosures this fall. The organization revealed Friday that babies from four of its animals had been born in the last ...

This baby tapir is too cute to handle. NFL asks all teams to hold moment of silence for Cowboys' Marshawn Kneeland after ...