Tapirs were hunted for their meat and hides, which also played a role in its decline. The tapir is a pig-shaped, plant-eating mammal with a short snout. The baby has spots and stripes that ...

Tapirs are elusive, herbivorous mammals with distinctive prehensile snouts that inhabit the forests of Central and South ...

It was caught on tape-ir. After over a century of being considered regionally extinct, the South American tapir was spotted alive and well in Brazil in footage blowing up online. In January ...

Ume is a white striped and speckled Malayan tapir calf that was born Feb. 2 at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma. Her name means plum blossom and apricot in Japanese. Since then she has ...

The white striped and speckled Malayan tapir calf was named Ume, the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma wrote in a Feb. 11 Facebook post. In Japanese, Ume means plum blossom and apricot ...

KAJANG: In an unusual turn of events, a stray female tapir found itself in the middle of a rescue operation after wandering into Bandar Teknologi Kajang, Selangor. The Selangor State Department of ...