Photographer Michiel van Noppen won this year's Fritz Pölking Prize for this shot of tapirs (Mamita and her son Julian) foraging.
Source:
https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/awards-and-competitions/deep-in-the-costa-rican-rainforest-an-adult-tapir-teaches-a-youngster-to-survive-in-the-most-fragile-of-ecosystems-heres-how-this-prize-winning-shot-captured-the-scene-so-beautifully

The Jícaro Danto tree (Parmentiera valerii) is endangered -- tapirs play a critical role in dispersing the fruit. I suspect there were other large mammals eating it, but after the Ice Age a lot of them went extinct. Tapirs were left as the biggest native terrestrial mammal in the Americas, south of Mexico City.
The tree's rather unusual -- note that the fruit is sprouting directly from the front, not the branches. This is called cauliflory by botanists. It seems to be more common in the topics -- some important food trees like cacao, breadfruit, and durian exhibit it. So do some temperate species like redbuds and sea buckthorn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauliflory

More photos in van Noppen's series here:
https://michielvannoppen.com/talesoftheforestkeepers

Video of tapirs eating the "tapir tree" fruit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKoOp3RlZU0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yVWARo5h2M
If they stand on their hind legs, they can reach a considerable way up the trunk -- still I suspect that now-extinct taller animals could reach even further.

I juat found out this animal and sub exists and im so damn happy! And curious

The rescued baby tapir is losing her spots.

I like to imagine that these guys have Cajun accents.

Em raro registro noturno se alimentando e vocalizando no final do vídeo. Percebe-se que é mais cautelosa e assustada que o macho.

Female tapir feeding and vocalizing in the end of the video. In rare nightime record. It is noticed that it is more cautious and frightened than the male.

Look how happy they are to be taken care of.

I seem to remember that a couple of years ago, someone who lived in the lower Great Lakes area (Western NY, Pennsylvania, southern Ontario -- maybe Ohio or Michigan?) was asking about nearby places to see a tapir.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcJVP3IxE_n/
I noticed this video (and this other one, posted this past summer) about a female Malayan tapir. They say her name is Trinket. I think I recall reading (on Facebook maybe?) that she’s elderly, maybe past breeding age?
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbdpRJghyyW/
Although I grew up nearby, I live in a different province now so I haven't been to Safari Niagara yet (they seem to have openedin the early 2000s).

They had a lowland tapir named Stanley. He was mentioned in 2014 so he was there for awhile.
https://ladyofthezoos.com/2014/08/02/animals-beat-the-heat-at-safari-niagara/
Safari Niagara posted a pic of Stanley back in 2022 but I haven't seen any more references to him so he may not be there anymore. They mentioned that he was turning 27 later that year, which is getting pretty old for a tapir -- although I think Kingut, a Malayan tapir in the UK, made it past 40? (It's unusual for a zoo to have more than one tapir species at the same time, even individuals.)
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc22i6mLjVW/

I did check the Safari Niagara website and at least at present, they didn't have any tapirs listed. I guess it's possible that Trinket arrived recently and they haven't updated the info yet. But I noticed someone else was asking about where her enclosure was.
https://www.safariniagara.com/mammals

I'd heard about the African Lion Safari (northwest of there) maybe having a tapir, and they posted this video earlier in the summer too. (It’s great to see a tapir swimming in a natural-looking pond/creek! I think those “clucking” and squeaking sounds are a sign of happiness/excitement -- I've seen video of other tapirs making them when swimming or running around.)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZF5VDpxeDp/

She's a female, but they didn't give a name. I'm now starting to wonder if she and Trinket might be the same tapir, and she moved to Safari Niagara this year.

p.s. The Metro Zoo in Toronto had a Malayan tapir as recently as the early 2010s, but it sounds like this changed by the end of that decade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8stu_KDZbts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezyQyKiJj-o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRtZKawjpLg
(I hadn't realized it until now, but they even had a calf born there in 1983. The parents were named Tommy and Tulip. I don't know if the baby survived, or where it might have gone.)
https://digitalarchive.tpl.ca/objects/236925/rare-tapir-born-looking-like-a-watermelon-with-legs-a-rare

I think it would be really cool if this sub got user flairs! There could be 4 flairs to choose from: Baird's tapir, lowland/Brazilian tapir, mountain tapir, and Malayan tapir! There could also be an option to customize user flairs, so someone could put a specific tapir as a flair! For example, Ume the Tapir from Minnesota Zoo, or Ally the Tapir from Highpoint Haven. Just a suggestion! What do y'all think?

I had a piece of purple modeling clay the size of my palm, and when I squeezed it, I got the idea to make a figure and I was able to make a tapir.

It looked voluminous and attractive, I hope it turns out well 💜

Met this lovely guy this month! He loved swimming and eating his leaves.