Tapirs are large mammals that look like wild hogs with anteater snouts. In reality, tapirs are neither, and they are most closely related to horses and rhinos. The word "tapir" comes from an ...

Shortly after 10 a.m. Friday, Carlotta, a mountain tapir, strolled into her new home at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. The 21-year-old female, native to South America, sniffed around a bit in her remodeled ...

A zoo worker evacuated Ukraine's only family of tapirs, a rare mammal that has lived on Earth for 20 million years, from the devastated city of Kharkiv on Saturday. "The rescue operation was very ...

Staff at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium are getting ready for a new baby. Yuna, a 9-year-old Malayan tapir, is pregnant. Tapirs, according to the Tapir Specialist Group, are rare mammals that are ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When Rinny and Benny move into their new digs next year, they’ll take a little piece of history with them. No, tapirs — like Rinny and Benny — don’t ...

The Baird’s tapir calf and her mom, Luna, spend their time grooming, nursing and exploring. Ken Bohn San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Luna, a Baird’s tapir at the San Diego Zoo, is a new mom. In a ...

Tapirs are very charismatic, yet not many people know much about these species. Evolutionarily, tapirs represent a unique taxonomic group; they have retained most of their prehistoric anatomical ...