The recent INCAB research on humans was carried out in a 2,200-square-kilometer (849-square-mile) area, the same area where the tapir study was conducted, in the municipalities of Nova Alvorada do ...

The proper response is to maintain distance and immediately contact authorities – not to climb on top of a potentially ...

Mr Long, who established World Tapir Day in 2008, added: "Being 350kg at the most, tapirs are going to need a big territory to roam around. But even when their habitats aren’t cleared away, ranchers ...

A joint community effort plants trees to provide food sources and restore the habitat for one of Malaysia's rarest animals.

A boy who witnessed an attack on his toddler sister by a Brazilian tapir at Dublin Zoo, and saw his parents injured while attempting to save the girl, has been awarded €25,000 in the Circuit ...

Among the biomes studied, the Pantanal wetland is currently the most stable for tapirs. In the Cerrado grasslands and the Atlantic Forest, human impact has made the species vulnerable.

As the Tapir Specialist Group notes, “Because of their enormous size and large range, the tapir is one of the first species in its habitat to be adversely affected by human disturbance.” ...

The Brazilian tapir is about the size of a donkey, with legs a bit too short for its body. An extra thick neck helps it survive jaguar attacks. Like pigs, tapirs have few hairs and their long ...

A baby tapir has become the latest addition to Edinburgh Zoo’s growing collection of rare animals after it was born just hours before the end of 2014. The male Malayan tapir named Mekong, after ...