Sempurna, the zoo’s four-year-old Malayan tapir, is set to give birth between mid-July and mid-August, the Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo announced Wednesday. The news marks a crucial step forward ...

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

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

It’s a girl! Point Defiance Zoo recently welcomed a rare and endangered Malayan tapir calf. Her name is Ume, which means plum blossom and apricot in Japanese. The zoo says her keeper staff chose ...

Ume is a white striped and speckled Malayan tapir calf that was born Feb. 2 at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma. Her name means plum blossom and apricot in Japanese. Since then she has ...

A rare and endangered Malayan tapir calf was born at Tacoma’s Point Defiance Zoo on Sunday, February 2, the second tapir birth in the zoo’s 120-year history. Footage released by the Point Defiance Zoo ...

Two large herbivores from South Lakes Safari Zoo have arrived at their new homes. This follows the closure of Dalton zoo, which shut to members of the public for the last time at the end of 2024.

TACOMA, Wash. — Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium announced the name and gender of their rare and endangered Malayan tapir calf Tuesday. It's a girl! Staff at the Tacoma zoo made the name and gender ...

A female Malayan tapir named Sempurna is seen at the Calgary zoo, in Calgary, in a Jan. 9 handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-The Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo, *MANDATORY CREDIT* CALGARY — The ...

An endangered and rare Malayan tapir calf was born this weekend at Washington’s Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium. Only the second tapir birth there in more than a hundred years, the unnamed newborn ...