It was a balmy January morning at the Los Angeles Zoo, and former general curator Michael Dee couldn’t help get excited — and inevitably a bit graphic — when talking about the mating habits of several ...

Tapir (TAY-purr): n. any of several large, hoofed, hoglike mammals of tropical America and the Malayan peninsula. The latest: A young Malayan tapir, considered one of Southeast Asia's most endangered ...

Tapirs are large mammals that look like wild hogs with anteater snouts. In reality, tapirs are neither, and they are most closely related to horses and rhinos. The word "tapir" comes from an ...