Caregivers are mourning and reviewing their processes at the Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance after an accidental misdosing ...

The endangered Malayan tapirs died within a short period of each other, prompting an internal investigation. The zoo ...

Zoo staff prescribed a copper supplement to the two animals after noticing they had low levels of the mineral in their ...

An investigation into the sudden deaths of two Malayan tapirs at the Denver Zoo determined they died after receiving a heavy ...

The Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance says it's investigating after two Malayan tapirs at the zoo died recently.

The zoo announced last week that the two tapirs had died in a "relatively short period of time." ...

Malayan tapirs, like the two that died recently at the Denver Zoo, are an endangered species, according to the International ...

Hertfordshire Zoo has welcomed a new lowland tapir as part of a European breeding programme. Fifi arrived from another UK-based zoo and is already making a big impression on her keepers while settling ...

The tapir, South America's largest land mammal, plays a key role in maintaining the biodiversity of forests and wetlands. Conservation biologist Patrícia Medici works to protect this elusive species.

Agostina is a tapir that silently moves her heavy body while eating leaves in a forest in western Nicaragua, where she was released on Friday as part of a preservation effort. She was born in ...

For over a hundred years, the South American tapir (Tapirus terrestris) was thought to have vanished from Brazil’s coastal Atlantic Forest. But now, in an extraordinary twist, hidden trail cameras ...