South American tapirs are one of four species of tapir alongside the Baird’s tapir, mountain tapir and Malayan tapir, all of which are classified as endangered.

More than a century has passed since the last sighting of a South American tapir, a species previously believed to be extinct, until a recent, surprise sighting was reported in Brazil. Hidden ...

Baird’s tapirs are gentle, peaceful creatures – but their world is falling apart around them. As the forests they’ve inhabited for tens of millions of years are stripped away, the last few thousand ...

You’ll find some of the shyest and most endangered species here, too, like Baird’s tapirs, jaguars, scarlet macaws and sloths, both two-toed and three-toed. Australia’s Great Barrier Reef tops many a ...

All four tapir species (the South American tapir, Baird's tapir, Mountain tapir and the Malayan tapir) are listed as vulnerable or endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature ...

Ever since Ume the Malayan tapir was born at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma, Washington, last month, the baby animal-loving side of the internet (and let's be honest, that's ...

The white striped and speckled Malayan tapir calf was named Ume, the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma wrote in a Feb. 11 Facebook post. In Japanese, Ume means plum blossom and apricot ...

Ume is a white striped and speckled Malayan tapir calf that was born Feb. 2 at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma. Her name means plum blossom and apricot in Japanese. Since then she has ...

I spent the following weeks imagining wild cats coming to the pool to take a drink, tapirs entering the water for a swim, and birds splashing at the water’s edge, taking a bath. Last week, I was ...