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Featured Animals – Mountain Tapir

Discover “everything Mountain tapir” around the Zoo below; from news to adoptions, conservation programs, your own encounter options, animal experiences, shows, events and more.

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There’s a Fuzzy Familiar Face Back on the Mountain

April 12, 2023

MOCHI, 24-YEAR-OLD MOUNTAIN TAPIR, RETURNS TO CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN ZOO! – A critically endangered, extremely rare and iconic species, the mountain tapir, has returned to America’s mountain Zoo. Meet Mochi [MOH-chee], one of only four mountain tapir remaining in the entire country. Longtime CMZoo members and fans may recognize him. Mochi lived at CMZoo from 2000 . . .

Adopt Choices for Tapir

Support your favorites with digital, traditional, gift package, and group adoptions. Gifting any adopt choice is available by simply completing the gift area at checkout.

Mountain Tapir

Stop by and meet Mochi [MOH-chee], one of only four mountain tapir remaining in the entire country! Experience the magic of this critically endangered, extremely rare and iconic species from tropical areas of the Andes mountains in South America. Tapirs look a little bit like bears or anteaters, but they’re actually more closely related to horses and rhinos.

Check in with Cofan, 19-Year-Old Mountain Tapir

September 28, 2022

It’s time to check in on our mountain tapir, Cofan, as he lives out his golden years! In early 2021, Cofan underwent a life-saving surgery to remove his damaged left kidney. Since then, Cofan’s keepers have worked closely with him and given him extra love and scratches, which are his favorite rewards. Giving Cofan scratches . . .

CMZoo Tapir Expedition Team Returns from Ecuador

February 11, 2020

A team of four CMZoo staff members traveled to Ecuador in December to track critically endangered mountain tapir and speak to local school children about the native species. They successfully studied and attached GPS collars to five wild tapir. The collars will relay data to prove the roaming ranges of tapir in the Andes Mountains, . . .

CMZoo Staff Members Return to Ecuador to Continue Mountain Tapir Conservation Efforts

November 28, 2019

In early December 2019, four staff members from Cheyenne Mountain Zoo will travel to the Andes Mountains of Ecuador for an important conservation expedition to help save critically endangered mountain tapirs. Their prehensile noses with long snouts, odd-and-even-toed hooved feet and furry, bear-shaped bodies make this unique species look like something out of a children’s . . .

V.I.P. Small Group Tours

Custom Memories for a Lifetime. Book a world-class V.I.P. Tour at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Treat yourself and your fellow animal lovers to an experience of a lifetime! Go behind-the-scenes to meet, feed, or train your favorite animals. Learn more...

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo Announces Member Conservation Vote Grant Winners

May 7, 2019

Each year, Cheyenne Mountain Zoo members vote to select which CMZoo staff-championed conservation projects will receive funding. This year, $75,000 was allocated to support projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ecuador, Kenya, Laos, Vietnam, and right here, in Colorado Springs. Since 2015, Cheyenne Mountain Zoo member conservation grants have $375,000 of membership revenue to support field conservation worldwide

Annual Member Vote Keeps CMZoo on the Frontlines of Conservation

March 28, 2019

Since 2015, the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo Member Conservation Grants has provided $300,000 of membership revenue to support field conservation worldwide. Last year, members voted to fund projects from Central Asia to right here in Colorado. Once again, it is time for members to help CMZoo decide which staff-championed conservation projects will receive full funding. It . . .

Endangered Species at the Zoo

Are They in Danger of Extinction? Animals listed here may have a threatened or endangered conservation status with the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN).

Adopt an Animal

Foster any animal and you’ll help Cheyenne Mountain Zoo continue to provide outstanding care. Whether given as a gift or used to celebrate a favorite species, symbolic adoptions come with a variety of benefits only adoptive parents can enjoy. Ways to adopt your favorites: Digital Adoption – ($35) choose any Zoo animal from the full . . .

Tapir Encounter

Meet this Animal Up-close.

These unique ungulates aren’t the first animal you learn about as a kid, but you won’t be able to forget them after meeting our “Snorkel Pig”! Enjoy experiences of a lifetime, fantastic photo-ops and feeding or enrichment opportunities with your favorite.

During this Encounter you may:

Meet one of the few mountain tapirs in the United States (and the only mountain tapir in Colorado)!
Learn all about training and husbandry from their keepers.
Includes the opportunity to touch a tapir, and maybe even offer them a snack.

Meet Carlotta and Cofan, CMZoo’s Magical Mountain Tapirs

November 29, 2018

It’s no secret that Cheyenne Mountain Zoo is home to rare and unique animals. But, this month’s Animal Encounter features two CMZoo ambassador animals that are so extremely rare, that CMZoo is one of only two places in the nation where they can be seen. CMZoo’s mountain tapirs are two of only seven in the . . .

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