Meet Rinny, our incredible 17-year-old Malayan tapir, who’s not only thriving at Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance, but teaching us all a thing or two about resilience and adaptation! Despite being nearly 60% blind, Rinny confidently navigates her habitat at Toyota Elephant Passage thanks to personalized care from our animal care and veterinary teams. With modified training tools and carefully designed spaces, she’s built a routine that keeps her happy, healthy, and independent. Malayan tapirs ar

Hello, Umi! The Denver Zoo is celebrating its third-ever successful birth of a Malayan tapir. See more photos of Umi: http://bit.ly/2qo3iD4 | Denver7

LET'S LEARN MORE ABOUT MALAYAN TAPIR!! The Malayan Tapir (Tapirus indicus) is the largest of the five species of tapir and the only one native to Asia. In the past, Malayan tapirs could be found throughout tropical lowland rain forests of Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia,Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar. However, their population decreased over the years to the state whereby Tapirs are currently classified by the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) as an endangered species. Let