After over a century of being considered regionally extinct, this ecological “unicorn” was spotted alive and well in the ...

The San Diego Zoo has announced that female Baird’s tapir Luna gave birth to a female calf in early June — and the baby needs a name. The prehensile-nosed calf and her mother can now be seen ...

We report on the first case of attine workers, Atta cephalotes (L.) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), foraging on the scar tissues of a living vertebrate, a wounded female Baird’s tapir, Tapirus bairdii ...

Tengrinews.kz - For over a century, scientists believed that the South American tapir had completely disappeared from the ...

(see graphic) Apart from Malayan tapirs, other tapir species in the world are Baird’s tapir, lowland tapir and mountain tapir, which are found in Mexico, Central America and South America.