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

The Zoo Miami tapir's escape comes on the heels of other alarming zoo incidents. On Feb. 2, a rare Eurasian eagle owl named Flaco went missing from his exhibit at New York City's Central Park ...

The San Diego Zoo is celebrating the birth of a baby Tapir cub, and they're now looking for help in finding the perfect name. On June 27, 2024, the San Diego Zoo shared a video to its official ...

A 12-year-old female tapir is moving from Washington to CA, the Seattle-based zoo said. She moved to Washington in 2013 from Tampa, Florida.

Zoo Miami staff members are discussing modifications that need to be made after a tapir briefly escaped from its enclosure Tuesday morning, Zoo Miami’s Ron Magill confirmed.

The zoo said in a Facebook post that the adult male tapir jumped over a habitat barrier about 7:45 a.m. after apparently becoming spooked by nearby maintenance machinery.

An endangered Malayan tapir calf was born at a zoo in Washington. The rare animal was welcomed at Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium on February 2, marking only the second tapir birth in the zoo's ...

It’s a girl! Point Defiance Zoo recently welcomed a rare and endangered Malayan tapir calf. Her name is Ume, which means plum blossom and apricot in Japanese. The zoo says her keeper staff chose ...

Ume, a spirited three-month-old Malayan tapir calf, will make her first appearance at the Asian Forest Sanctuary. “She’s spicy!” said Telena Welsh, Curator at the zoo’s Asian Forest Sanctuary.

A Baird's tapir calf born at the Reid Park Zoo on Jan. 4 is being hand-raised by zoo keepers, like Zoo Supervisor Adam Ramsey, after its mother showed signs of aggression toward it.

The zoo said its mountain tapir was humanely euthanized after veterinary measures failed to revive him from a severe two-day downturn. Cofan came to CMZ in 2014 as a breeding partner to Carlotta ...

An endangered and rare Malayan tapir calf was born this weekend at Washington’s Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium. Only the second tapir birth there in more than a hundred years, the unnamed ...