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.

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 ...

The South American tapir, one of the largest land mammals on the continent, has resurfaced in the Atlantic Forest for the first time in over a century. Scientists captured footage of not just one ...

An endangered baby Malayan tapir was born at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma, Washington. The animal has white stripes and spots ...

Twenty-four-year-old Mochi is part of the critically endangered mountain tapir species, which many CMZoo fans may remember from his time at the zoo from 2000-2014. Mochi moved to the Los Angeles Zo… ...

Some of the ideas from elementary school kids included mirrors for the tapirs as they like seeing themselves, grip material around the pool to keep the animals from slipping and textured rocks the ...

Tapirs look like a bizarre genetic experiment that involved crossbreeding a pig with a donkey whose adoptive parents were anteaters.

Ume, a rare Malayan tapir, just turned one month old at Tacoma’s Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium. With her giant eyes and bright spots, Ume has blown up online as a social media star.

It’s the second time a tapir, rare and endangered, has been born at the zoo since it opened 120 years ago, zoo officials said.