COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Cheyenne Mountain Zoo (CMZ) is mourning the loss of two rare and endangered animals. The Colorado Springs zoo said its 19-year-old mountain tapir Cofan and 14-year-old ...

CMZoo said because mountain tapir are so rare in human care, not much is known about their life expectancies. According to the zoo, fewer than 2,500 adult mountain tapir are remaining in their ...

Carlotta, a beloved 27-year-old mountain tapir at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, has died. She was the oldest female mountain tapir ever in human care in the United States, zoo officials said.

Lauren Phillippi, lead mountain tapir keeper, says that Mochi - who is 24-years-old - is an older guy, but remains playful and curious. "He likes to hold his head to one side or stretch out a leg ...

Mountain tapir Cofan, 17, is “a big love bug,” says Cheyenne Mountain Zoo lead animal keeper Michelle Salido.

Oct. 7—Cheyenne Mountain Zoo lost two endangered animals on Thursday, the zoo announced in a news release Friday. The animals, a 19-year-old mountain tapir named Cofan and 14-year-old Mexican ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4) - A 17-year-old mountain tapir at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo is recovering after after having one of his kidneys removed earlier this month.

Twenty-four-year-old Mochi is part of the critically endangered mountain tapir species, which many CMZoo fans may remember from his time at the zoo from 2000-2014. Mochi moved to the Los Angeles ...

The mountain tapir is an emblematic herbivore of the Andean cloud forest, globally classified as ‘Endangered’ according to the IUCN Red List due to habitat loss and poaching. The presence and ...

Cofan, a 19-year-old mountain tapir, and Luna, a 14-year-old Mexican Wolf Matriach passed away in unrelated situations zoo officials said Friday.