Shortly after 10 a.m. Friday, Carlotta, a mountain tapir, strolled into her new home at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. The 21-year-old female, native to South America, sniffed around a bit in her remodeled ...

A Washington zoo is saying goodbye to its last Malayan tapir before she moves to a new home in California, officials said. Ulan, the “prehistoric-looking” mammal, came to the Woodland Park Zoo in ...

APPLE VALLEY, Minn. --This year, thousands of students from Minnesota are competing in the Minnesota Zoo's "Zooms STEM Design Challenge." About 120 team projects were selected to move on to this ...

With fewer than 800 left in Peninsular Malaysia, the Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus) is categorised as an endangered species. With a nickname the “panda of South-East Asia” due to its black and white ...

Meet Rosie, a baby tapir and the newest member of the Miller Zoo family. Rosie was born on August 21 and got to enjoy her first day outside, exploring the world with her mom, at the end of September, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When Rinny and Benny move into their new digs next year, they’ll take a little piece of history with them. No, tapirs — like Rinny and Benny — don’t ...