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The largest is the Malayan tapir, which can grow up to 8 feet in ... having changed very little over the past 20 million years. What Do Tapirs Eat? Tapirs are herbivores, and their diet consists ...
While baby Malayan tapirs may start mouthing on food within ... they enjoy a healthy and varied diet. In their native ...
A tapir calf is making her public debut at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma on Friday! Ume, a spirited ...
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 ...
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 rare Malayan tapir cub — an incredibly endangered species with only about 2,500 left in the world — was recently born at Bioparc Fuengirola Zoo in Malaga, Spain. This marks the first birth ...
The Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium welcomed enthusiastic crowds Friday as Ume, a three-month-old Malayan tapir calf, made her ...
Visit Point Defiance Zoo to meet the new tapir calf making her exciting public debut this Friday in Tacoma, Washington.