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• n  similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs

• One November day in 1935 a babbling, excited band of pygmies pranced into the Catholic Mission at Buta, in the Belgian Congo, carrying with them a baby okapi, scarcely a dozen .
• The Vincennes Zoo, Paris, let it be known last week that Ebola, a female infant okapia rare, sawed-off semigi-raffe from the Belgian Congo rain forest had lived three weeks .
• Of all wild animals, the okapi is considered the shyest, the most subtle.

• Okapia johnstoni

News & Articles

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• Okapi calf makes debut at San Diego Zoo
  A female okapi born May 19 at the San Diego Zoo checked out her exhibit for the first time Tuesday.
  June 5, 2013 - Channel 8 San Diego