Mountain tapir Cofan, 17, wades through a pond at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Mountain tapir Cofan, 17, is “a big love bug,” says Cheyenne Mountain Zoo lead animal keeper Michelle Salido.

The Geiseltal tapirs and the horses therefore likely maximized the different advantages of their respective life cycle strategies, which caused divergent body size evolution.

Tapirs get quite big, commonly reaching body weights of between 300 and 700 pounds. They are the largest land mammals native to South America. Because of their shy nature and usually solitary ...

Small horses got smaller, big tapirs got bigger 47 million years ago Researchers open a window onto ancient mammal evolution using fossils from Germany Date: March 24, 2020 Source: Martin-Luther ...

An endangered and rare Malayan tapir calf was born this weekend at Washington’s Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium. Only the second tapir birth there in more than a hundred years, the unnamed ...

A rare and endangered Malayan tapir calf was born there on Sunday, weighing an estimated 20 pounds. The event marked only the second tapir birth in the zoo’s 120-year history.

NORFOLK, Va. - The Virginia Zoo has welcomed its first-ever Malayan tapir baby who was born shortly after 8 p.m. on January 20! The male calf was named “Luther” by his Zoo Keepers for the ...

Baird’s tapirs are an ancient group of animals known as "Living Fossils." They are related to the primitive horse and rhinoceros. They are also the largest land mammal in South America. Females are ...

The discovery of an ancient tapir's skeletal remains near an emperor's tomb indicates that these animals once roamed China.

Cofan is “a big love bug,” says Cheyenne Mountain Zoo lead animal keeper Michelle Salido. Carlotta and Cofan are the sweet old couple who live down the block. Only the pair are mountain tapir ...