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 ...

The Houston Zoo is showing off its newest resident: a cute little male Baird’s tapir born last weekend. He is the first tapir born at the Houston Zoo and the first baby for mother Moli and dad Noah.

Tacoma’s Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium has a new resident. The zoo’s female endangered Malayan tapir, Yuna, gave birth to a male baby July 12. Tapirs are large herbivores that look similar to a pig ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...