There's a new tapir in town... 👀 We’re so excited to welcome Fifi, a 20-year-old female lowland tapir! 💜 She’s settling beautifully into her brand-new tapir house and has already won over our keepers with her big personality. Experienced, confident, and a proud mum and even a grandma, she brings valuable breeding experience with her. Tapirs have long played an important role in our conservation journey, and Fifi’s arrival marks the next chapter in that story. As our current tapirs prepare to m

Brazilian conservation biologist Patrícia Medici has spent two decades studying tapirs, South America’s largest land mammal, in the Atlantic Forest, the Pantanal wetlands, and the Cerrado grassland. Read more: https://news.mongabay.com/2020/06/worlds-top-tapir-expert-prepares-for-unprecedented-amazon-mission/ | Mongabay.com

1.7M views · 649 shares | After escaping a conservation center, this tapir needed a lot of help from humans when it got trapped in a pond. | National Geographic | Facebook