Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma, Wash. Yuna, the beloved Malayan tapir, is preparing to welcome a new calf after a 13-month gestation period. The zoo’s dedicated veterinary and keeper team ...

The San Diego Zoo has announced that female Baird’s tapir Luna gave birth to a female calf in early June — and the baby needs a name. The prehensile-nosed calf and her mother can now be seen ...

The Malayan tapir is an "odd-toed" animal, having four toes on each front foot and three toes on the back A rare Malayan tapir, a species which is related to both the horse and the rhinoceros, has ...

They’re “extremely well endowed,” says tapir expert Michele Stancer, director of animal care at Utah’s Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City. An aroused tapir’s manhood is so “large and ungainly ...

Zoo and university to offer conservation course Zoo celebrates birth of world's rarest chimpanzee Endangered Malayan tapir born in zoo Conservationists have been recording the joey's growth with a ...

Peer through the zoo's leafy canopy trees and you may catch sight of Belize's beloved howler monkeys, or at least one tropical parrot, tapir, Jabiru stork or harpy eagle. And on the zoo's rustic ...