PERU -- Dressing up as an animal might just be the best way to catch a suspect! That's what police in Peru did. The disguised officer then charges into the home when the door is opened and pins ...

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 ...

A Peruvian officer in a capybara costume arrested a suspected drug dealer on Valentine’s Day. The disguise was part of an anti-drug operation’s "camouflage strategy." Police seized 1,700 ...

The Pantanal offers its own big five animals: the jaguar, tapir, capybara, marsh deer, and giant anteater. Could Rafael manage to track them all down for us? Into our final safari, we still had a ...

South America's largest land mammal has made a historic comeback. The South American tapir hasn't been spotted in the Atlantic Forest for over 100 years and was considered extinct in Brazil's coastal ...

TACOMA, Wash. — A Malayan tapir calf was recently born at Tacoma's Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium for the second time in over a century. The zoo has not yet released the calf's name or sex but ...

Only the second tapir birth there in more than a hundred years, the unnamed newborn resembles a “fuzzy, walking watermelon.” “Exciting news! We’re thrilled to announce that tapir Yuna gave ...

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 ...