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 ...

Researchers have documented conflict between between a tapir and a dog in Mexico, highlighting the impact of encroaching human settlement on this living fossil species. Tapirs are a living fossil, ...

A tapir calf is making her public debut at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma on Friday! Ume, a spirited three-month-old Malayan tapir calf, will make her first appearance at the Asian ...

I received the following email from my grandson Parker, who was on a field trip in Central America: “While walking a trail in Belize after dark, a member of our group spotted a faint eyeshine from ...

Woodland Park Zoo will soon bid farewell to its last remaining Malayan tapir, a 12-year-old female named Ulan, who will be relocated to Fresno Chaffee Zoo at the end of this month, according to zoo ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...