Carlotta, one of just seven mountain tapir in the United States, died at age 27 at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, officials announced Wednesday. “Most people had never heard of a mountain tapir before ...

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) - Colorado Springs' Cheyenne Mountain Zoo (CMZoo) is celebrating World Tapir Day on April 27th by inviting visitors to meet Mochi, the mountain tapir. Zoo guests can ...

Shortly after 10 a.m. Friday, Carlotta, a mountain tapir, strolled into her new home at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. The 21-year-old female, native to South America, sniffed around a bit in her remodeled ...

COLORADO SPRINGS — It is a somber day at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo today as they lost two of their endangered species on Thursday afternoon. The zoo said goodbye to a Mountain Tapir and a Mexican Wolf ...

The tapir is one of evolution’s quieter success stories — an ancient, oddly proportioned mammal that has changed very little for millions of years. Though they may resemble a cross between a pig and ...

World Tapir Day is observed every year on 27 April where the reality of this species emerges. Only four tapir species still exist on Earth and one of them is already critically endangered. Know which ...

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 ...

Tapirs are very charismatic, yet not many people know much about these species. Evolutionarily, tapirs represent a unique taxonomic group; they have retained most of their prehistoric anatomical ...

Oct. 7—Cheyenne Mountain Zoo lost two endangered animals on Thursday, the zoo announced in a news release Friday. The animals, a 19-year-old mountain tapir named Cofan and 14-year-old Mexican wolf ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4) - A 17-year-old mountain tapir at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo is recovering after after having one of his kidneys removed earlier this month. He's not out of the woods yet ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KXRM) — One of only four mountain tapirs in the U.S. is returning to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Twenty-four-year-old Mochi is part of the critically endangered mountain tapir ...