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, ...

They may be the largest living land mammals of the Americas with few predators, but for the few thousand wild tapirs left in the world the future looks bleak. Over the last 30 million years, the ...

Brazilian conservation biologist Patrícia Medici first won a Whitley Award, the “Green Oscars” for conservation science, in 2008; this year, she’s the recipient of the top tier of the prize, the ...

Tapirs are very charismatic, yet not many people know much about these species. Evolutionarily, tapirs represent a unique taxonomic group; they have retained most of their prehistoric anatomical ...

The baby lives at the Newquay Zoo with her parents and a capybara named Johnson Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously appeared ...

Camera traps bring you closer to the secretive natural world and are an important conservation tool to study wildlife. This week we’re meeting one of the largest mammals in South America: the lowland ...

Cofan is “a big love bug,” says Cheyenne Mountain Zoo lead animal keeper Michelle Salido. Carlotta and Cofan are the sweet old couple who live down the block. Only the pair are mountain tapir, and ...

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 ...

Somewhere within the American Museum of Natural History in New York City lies the partial skull and skin of a young adult male tapir, item number 36661, collected by former president Theodore ...