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

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The white striped and speckled Malayan tapir calf was named Ume, the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma wrote in a Feb. 11 Facebook post. In Japanese, Ume means plum blossom and apricot ...

Her mother was treated at the Mater Hospital. A tapir is a usually docile creature, which looks like an anteater and is a similar size to a pig. A spokesperson for the zoo said visitor and animal ...

The white striped and speckled Malayan tapir calf was born Feb. 2 at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma, the zoo said in a news release. It’s the second time a tapir has been born at the ...

WBZ-TV's Levan Reid checked out the Tropical Forest, where gorillas and tapirs were waking up for the morning. He also watched an anteater being fed.