COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Cheyenne Mountain Zoo (CMZ) is mourning the loss of two rare and endangered animals. The Colorado Springs zoo said its 19-year-old mountain tapir Cofan and 14-year-old ...

CMZoo said because mountain tapir are so rare in human care, not much is known about their life expectancies. According to the zoo, fewer than 2,500 adult mountain tapir are remaining in their ...

Cofan, a 19-year-old mountain tapir, and Luna, a 14-year-old Mexican Wolf Matriach passed away in unrelated situations zoo officials said Friday. Both animals were elderly, and were experiencing ...

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 ...

Mountain tapir Cofan, 17, shares a meal with a Muscovy duck at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, Tuesday, June 1, 2021.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4) - A 17-year-old mountain tapir at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo is recovering after after having one of his kidneys removed earlier this month. He's not out of the woods ...

Oct. 7—Cheyenne Mountain Zoo lost two endangered animals on Thursday, the zoo announced in a news release Friday. The animals, a 19-year-old mountain tapir named Cofan and 14-year-old Mexican ...

Lauren Phillippi, lead mountain tapir keeper, says that Mochi - who is 24-years-old - is an older guy, but remains playful and curious. "He likes to hold his head to one side or stretch out a leg ...

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 ...

It’s hard to miss, thanks to its stocky body and distinctive trunk-like snout. Even though tapirs live on land, your best bet for finding one is to look near water. As this YouTube video shows, these ...

This may be an emerging trend: another 2024 paper from Colombia documented a mountain tapir (Tapirus pinchaque) being chased and attacked by two dogs in a protected area of the Central Andes of ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Victoria, a one-month-old Malayan tapir, is the most recent addition ...