Jaguars face several threats, including habitat fragmentation and illegal killing ... Image by Miroslav_1 via Depositphotos There are four recognized species of tapirs: Baird’s tapir, Mountain tapir, ...

Tapirs are often called “living fossils” because they have changed very little since the Eocene Epoch, which was between 56 ...

And a body covered in it, too. At least that’s the description of the Reid Park Zoo’s first newborn of 2014, a male Baird’s tapir, born Jan. 4. The calf is the first born to the zoo’s ...

WWF-Bolivia, with support from the Wildlife Adaptation Innovation Fund, is constructing 10 artificial watering holes for ...

Maestro Juan Flores’s apprentices brought my passport to the spirit world of jaguars in a small plastic chalice. It contained “la medicina,” a syrupy brown decoction of chacruna leaves and ...