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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Carlotta, one of just seven mountain tapir in the United States, died at age 27 at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, officials announced Wednesday.

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 ...

Twenty-four-year-old Mochi is part of the critically endangered mountain tapir species, which many CMZoo fans may remember from his time at the zoo from 2000-2014. Mochi moved to the Los Angeles ...

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 ...

The mountain tapir is an emblematic herbivore of the Andean cloud forest, globally classified as ‘Endangered’ according to the IUCN Red List due to habitat loss and poaching.

Within Peru’s Northern Andes, the spectacled bear and mountain tapir populations cling to their survival. In isolated refuges, they inhabit one of the world’s most important centers of biological ...