Celso Poot, director of the Belize Zoo, points to a fresh Baird’s tapir track near the George Price Highway in the Maya Forest Corridor. Image by Ruth Kamnitzer. Poot whips out his cellphone and ...

“About a week ago we lost a jaguar in a car collision, just over here,” says Celso Poot, director of the nonprofit Belize Zoo and Tropical Education Center. He is standing at the side of the ...

Peer through the zoo's leafy canopy trees and you may catch sight of Belize's beloved howler monkeys, or at least one tropical parrot, tapir, Jabiru stork or harpy eagle. And on the zoo's rustic ...

She's beauty, she's grace - Grace the Tapir, that is. The Zoo's newest animal addition was rescued from a forest fire, treated by the Belize Wildlife and Referral Clinic, and then taken to her new ...

The Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium welcomed enthusiastic crowds Friday as Ume, a three-month-old Malayan tapir calf, made her highly anticipated public debut. “We wanted to come specifically to ...

A tapir calf is making her public debut at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma on Friday! Ume, a spirited three-month-old Malayan tapir calf, will make her first appearance at the Asian ...

PETALING JAYA - The Malayan tapir tops the list of large mammals most frequently killed in road accidents in Malaysia. According to the Wildlife and National Parks Department (Perhilitan), 112 ...

And there's one in Belize that is particularly sweet. Every year, the tiny Central American nation throws an all-out bash in the name of its favorite dessert: chocolate. And from May 16 to 18 ...

Now, the public will finally get a chance to see her in person. Ume, a Malayan tapir calf, will make her debut Friday, May 16, at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma, the zoo said in a ...