Today we discuss a creature that’s very close to my heart, the Baird’s tapir. It’s an enormous, elephant-nosed, whistling, puddle-pooper. What’s not to love? Baird’s tapir (Tapirus bairdii) is known ...

Wildlife rangers camping at Si Phang Nga National Park heard a loud noise in the night then found a rare mammal foraging nearby, a video shows. Screengrab from Facebook video shared by Si Phang Nga ...

With their drooping noses, rotund bodies and vegetarian diets, tapirs are quite a sight. These elusive hoofed mammals are widely considered to be calm and gentle, naturally inclined to run and hide ...

My work with camera traps is a combination of science and art. Ecology is the study of the relationship between living organisms and their physical environment. An understanding of the species that ...

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 ...