Contessa and Tupi are the proud parents of a Baird’s tapir male calf, Reid Park Zoo announced Thursday.

A stretch of rainforest in Belize that allows wildlife to pass freely between protected areas is under threat of ...

After years of dismissing photo-mode camera traps, a wildlife photographer in Costa Rica discovers the power of DSLR traps ...

Yet, in the Americas and Asia, the tapir stands out as a strange-looking, trunked creature that demands attention. There are four species of tapir: the lowland, Baird's, mountain, and Malaysian tapir.

The more than 100 mammals include over 60 species of bat, five species of felids - Jaguar, Puma, Ocelot, Margay and Jaguarundi, as well as Mantled Howler Monkey and many endangered species such as ...

Tapirs (Tapirus spp.) may appear unassuming at first glance, but these prehistoric-looking mammals are true giants of the undergrowth in both Asian and American rainforests. The largest species, the ...

Woodland Park Zoo just welcomed an adorable new addition to its family. Binti is a Malayan tapir. She’s almost two years old.

On the ground floor of Chinatown’s Four Points, LaGula — from the team behind The Hungry Tapir — is rewriting the rules of what a vegan eatery can be: part brun ...

It’s a haven for predators like jaguars (Panthera onca) and pumas (Puma concolor), and threatened species like Baird’s tapirs (Tapirus bairdii) and harpy eagles (Harpia harpyja), among ...