Malayan tapir Animal is the only living Tapir species outside of the Americas. It is native to Southeast Asia from the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra© Divya M Nair/Shutterstock.com The tapir is one of ...

Carlotta and Cofan are the sweet old couple who live down the block. Only the pair are mountain tapir, and they love to sleep in the mud at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. It isn’t often you hear a wild animal ...

Antwerp Zoo in Belgium has welcomed a new family member: a baby Malayan tapir. The newborn is a little boy, and his arrival gives a bit of hope for the endangered species. There are less than 2,500 ...

Christmas came a little early for ZooTampa at Lowry Park, which welcomed the birth of a rare tapir calf last week. Ubi, an endangered Malayan tapir, gave birth to her fourth calf on Dec. 17. The baby ...

In a recent study, a team of Brazilian researchers discovered six new species of silky anteater, a mammal that lives in tropical rain forests of the Amazon region and Central America. In a recent ...