This story appears in the October 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine ... rhinos (three toes), horses (one hoofed toe), and tapirs (three toes in back and four toes in front).

Zoo officials said the tapir is endangered due to disappearing forests, farms, logging and being hunted by humans. Helena Wegner is a McClatchy National Real-Time Reporter covering the state of ...

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 ...

After over a century of being considered regionally extinct, the South American tapir was spotted alive ... Janeiro state was in Serra dos Órgãos National Park in 1914, IFL Science reported.

The white striped and speckled Malayan tapir calf was named Ume, the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma wrote in a Feb. 11 Facebook post. In Japanese, Ume means plum blossom and apricot ...