COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Cheyenne Mountain Zoo (CMZ) is mourning the loss of two rare and endangered animals. The Colorado Springs zoo said its 19-year-old mountain tapir Cofan and 14-year-old ...

The baby lives at the Newquay Zoo with her parents and a capybara named Johnson Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously appeared ...

Tapir Trails, a three-day tapir conservation awareness campaign, will be held from Oct 31 to Nov 2, at Cheras Leisure Mall.

APPLE VALLEY, Minn. --This year, thousands of students from Minnesota are competing in the Minnesota Zoo's "Zooms STEM Design Challenge." About 120 team projects were selected to move on to this ...

Camera traps bring you closer to the secretive natural world and are an important conservation tool to study wildlife. This week we’re meeting one of the largest mammals in South America: the lowland ...

MIAMI, Fla. (WFLA) — A Zoo Miami animal is back in its enclosure after briefly escaping on Tuesday morning. A Malayan tapir leaped from its habitat at around 7:45 a.m., WPLG reports. It was apparently ...

The Houston Zoo is showing off its newest resident: a cute little male Baird’s tapir born last weekend. He is the first tapir born at the Houston Zoo and the first baby for mother Moli and dad Noah.

WEBVTT THE VALLEYS, PATCHY FOG WITHPLENTY OF SUN, COOLER AND SUNDAYBUT STILL LOTS OF FUN.ENJOY YOUR WEEKEND.DAN: FINALLY, ANIMAL STORIES.TONIGHT, CUTE BABIES, OF THE ODDVARIETY.THIS IS FROM THE ZOO IN ...

Brazilian conservation biologist Patrícia Medici first won a Whitley Award, the “Green Oscars” for conservation science, in 2008; this year, she’s the recipient of the top tier of the prize, the ...