The Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium has welcomed a new baby, a Malayan tapir, which the zoo describes as a "tiny, walking watermelon." The squeaky baby looks more like a tiny alien to me ...

“Little Ume sports the signature white spots and stripes of a newborn tapir, making her look like a tiny, fuzzy watermelon,” the zoo wrote online. Staff say mom and baby are thriving behind ...

The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland has released the first pictures of a rare Malayan tapir born at Edinburgh ... fur helps provide camouflage for baby tapirs in their natural rainforest ...