The male Malayan tapir breached his habitat early Tuesday morning but was successfully captured an hour later, the Florida zoo said Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been ...

A British zoo has welcomed the birth of a rare Malayan tapir. Fewer than 2,500 of the animals are estimated to remain in their natural habitats in southeast Asia. Conservationists are cooing over the ...

TACOMA, Wash. — A Malayan tapir calf was recently born at Tacoma's Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium for the second time in over a century. The zoo has not yet released the calf's name or sex but said it ...

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 ...

TACOMA, Wash. — Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium announced the name and gender of their rare and endangered Malayan tapir calf Tuesday. It's a girl! Staff at the Tacoma zoo made the name and gender ...

Woodland Park Zoo (WPZ) is preparing to say goodbye to its last remaining Malayan tapir, Ulan, at the end of August. Her last day for visitors will be Aug. 27. The 12-year-old is headed to Fresno ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Victoria, a one-month-old Malayan tapir, is the most recent addition to ...

A tapir at Zoo Miami briefly escaped his enclosure on Tuesday morning after he was startled by maintenance workers using a large riding lawn mower. "The tapir just compromised [the enclosure]," Ron ...

EXCITING NEWS: We've welcomed the birth of a rare Malayan tapir, named Nessa! Fewer than 2,500 Malayan tapir remain in the wild due to mass habitat loss, leaving the species endangered, but we're ...

TACOMA, Wash. — Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium announced the name and gender of their rare and endangered Malayan tapir calf Tuesday. It's a girl! Staff at the Tacoma zoo made the name and gender ...