Ever since Ume the Malayan tapir was born at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma, Washington, last month, the baby ...

The Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium has welcomed a new baby, a Malayan tapir, which the zoo describes as a "tiny, walking watermelon." The squeaky baby looks more like a tiny alien to me ...

Ume, a rare Malayan tapir, just turned one month old at Tacoma’s Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium. With her giant eyes and ...

“Little Ume sports the signature white spots and stripes of a newborn tapir, making her look like a tiny, fuzzy watermelon,” the zoo wrote online. Staff say mom and baby are thriving behind ...

Tapirs are herbivores and have long and flexible noses for snagging leaves and fruit, the zoo said. When they are babies, they are born with white stripes and dots to blend in with their environment.

A Malayan tapir calf was born at the Tacoma zoo on Feb. 2. Katie G. Cotterill Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium A rare and endangered baby animal that looks like a “fuzzy watermelon” has a new ...

The baby will remain behind the scenes in the zoo’s Asian Forest Sanctuary, nursing and bonding with Yuna under the supervision of the zoo’s veterinarians. “The calf will receive a veterinary checkup ...