Ume, a rare Malayan tapir, just turned one month old at Tacoma’s Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium. With her giant eyes and ...

It was caught on tape-ir. After over a century of being considered regionally extinct, the South American tapir was spotted alive and well in Brazil in footage blowing up online. In January ...

WBZ-TV's Levan Reid checked out the Tropical Forest, where gorillas and tapirs were waking up for the morning. He also watched an anteater being fed.

The white striped and speckled Malayan tapir calf was born Feb. 2 at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma, the zoo said in a news release. It’s the second time a tapir has been born at the ...

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 ...

Her mother was treated at the Mater Hospital. A tapir is a usually docile creature, which looks like an anteater and is a similar size to a pig. A spokesperson for the zoo said visitor and animal ...