With their stocky build, trunk-like snout, and ancient lineage, tapirs look like they’ve walked straight out of the Ice Age - and in many ways, they have. In this video, we take a closer look at these ...

A new species of tapir living in the Amazon Region—the anta-pretinha, or small black tapir, as described in the December 2013 issue of the Journal of Mammalogy—has been hailed by many as the most ...

A Species Thought Lost Returns. For more than 100 years, the South American tapir (Tapirus terrestris) had been missing from the Atlantic Forest, a once vast biome now reduced to fragments due to ...

Lowland tapirs can weigh up to 660 pounds, making them the largest terrestrial mammals in South America. Tapirs use their prehensile proboscis (a weird name for “snout”) to snatch up high ...

PHOENIX — The Wildlife World Zoo has a new resident to look after with the birth of a rare South American Tapir. The newborn calf is receiving around-the-clock care by veterinary staff at the ...

Baby Baku, an endangered Malayan tapir, born at the RZSS Edinburgh Zoo on 19 May, is doing well, according to a video released by the zoo. In the video, the two-month old baby Baku runs around his ...

The South American tapir (Tapirus terrestres) is found in a variety of ... As Africa eyes protected areas expansion of 1 million square miles, concerns over enforcement persist.