Extra toes are an evolutionary advantage that helps barrel-bodied tapirs with weight bearing and traction. Another adaptive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's a girl! Point Defiance Zoo recently welcomed a rare and endangered Malayan tapir calf. Her name is Ume, which means plum ...

Ume, a young Malayan tapir born at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma, has arrived at the Minnesota Zoo as part of a conservation program aimed at protecting the endangered species. The ...

This is the moment villagers in Lampung, Indonesia worked to free an endangered Malayan tapir that became stuck in a muddy ...

With their drooping noses, rotund bodies and vegetarian diets, tapirs are quite a sight. These elusive hoofed mammals are widely considered to be calm and gentle, naturally inclined to run and hide ...

Tapirs are very charismatic, yet not many people know much about these species. Evolutionarily, tapirs represent a unique taxonomic group; they have retained most of their prehistoric anatomical ...