Researchers have documented conflict between between a tapir and a dog in Mexico, highlighting the impact of encroaching human settlement on this living fossil species. Tapirs are a living fossil, ...

A baby animal with an elephant-like trunk is calling a zoo in Virginia home. A female Baird’s tapir was born Sept. 1 at Metro Richmond Zoo, although the zoo did not unveil the baby online until an Oct ...

Zookeepers were left devastated after a pair of unlikely animal best friends were put to sleep on the same day, so neither would have to face life alone. Johnson, a nine-year-old capybara, and Al, a ...

Archived camera-trap data from southern Thailand’s Khlong Saeng–Khao Sok Forest Complex identified at least 43 individual Asian tapirs, suggesting the area may be a key refuge for the endangered ...