Experience the gentle and unique world of the tapir with this intimate close-up video. The footage focuses on the animal's face, highlighting its most distinctive feature: the short, prehensile trunk, ...

Camera traps bring you closer to the secretive natural world and are an important conservation tool to study wildlife. This week we’re meeting one of the largest mammals in South America: the lowland ...

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 ...

If you're looking for something that will make you smile, this sweet video that Miller Zoo shared introducing the world to their newest family member will do it. Meet Rosie, an adorable baby tapir ...

Tapirs use their trunks for many different reasons! The versatility of the appendage helps tapirs survive by assisting with foraging and defense. Their flexibility helps to grasp objects, improving ...

Tapir gets health checkup in fascinating video A tapir named Iibu recently had a health checkup at the Milwaukee County Zoo in Wisconsin. In the video, Iibu can be seen getting scans of his teeth and ...

Antwerp Zoo in Belgium has welcomed a new family member - a baby Malayan tapir! The newborn tapir is a little boy, and his arrival gives a bit of hope for the endangered species. Malayan Tapirs have ...

The baby lives at the Newquay Zoo with her parents and a capybara named Johnson Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously appeared ...

Tapirs are large mammals that look like wild hogs with anteater snouts. In reality, tapirs are neither, and they are most closely related to horses and rhinos. The word "tapir" comes from an ...

TACOMA, Wash. — Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium (PDZA) welcomed a special new baby to its family in Tacoma over the weekend. A rare and endangered Malayan tapir calf was born there on Sunday, weighing ...

Brazilian conservation biologist Patrícia Medici first won a Whitley Award, the “Green Oscars” for conservation science, in 2008; this year, she’s the recipient of the top tier of the prize, the ...