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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.

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