Tourists camping at Kaeng Krachan National Park saw a rare Malayan tapir rummaging around near their tents at night, officials said. Screengrab from Facebook video shared by the Public Relations ...

Researchers hoped to observe some mouse-deer but ended up filming another noteworthy creature: a Malayan tapir, study co-author Marcus Chua wrote in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.

The Malayan tapir is an "odd-toed" animal, having four toes on each front foot and three toes on the back A rare Malayan tapir, a species which is related to both the horse and the rhinoceros ...

It’s the order of mammals that includes rhinos (three toes), horses (one hoofed toe), and tapirs (three toes in back and four toes in front). Extra toes are an evolutionary advantage that helps ...

They shined their flashlights at the shadowy creature and discovered it was a rare Malayan tapir. A photo shows the tapir’s distinctive black and white coloring. It has a rotund body ...