The okapi has a long, dark tongue similar to its giraffe cousin, which it uses to strip leaves from branches. It consumes 45 to 60 pounds of food daily, including riverbed clay and occasionally ...

Okapi are part of the Giraffidae family, ... They are most active during the afternoon and evening, spending this time in search of food, according to the San Diego Zoo.

Okapi are members of the giraffidae family, a once diverse and large group of creatures that roamed Africa millions of years ago. Scientists believe that okapi and giraffes – as the surviving members ...

Staffers and patrons of the Denver Zoo are celebrating the birth of an animal that looks like a cross between a zebra and a giraffe. Kalispell, an okapi, was born June 27 and is the fifth birth of ...

After a violent attack on humans and okapi in 2012, the first okapi are being brought back to the Okapi Wildlife Reserve in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as reported by Mongabay. "Having them ...

As the population of the Okapi in Congo drops by 50% since 1995, the animal species is feared to be facing grave endangerment. heros-okapi san diego zoo unstitute for conservation research ...

IN my letter published in NATURE of May 27(vol. xcv., p. 342) dealing mainly with the “Supposed Horn-Sheaths of an Okapi,” I stated that “it is only when extremely young that the backward ...

The young okapi marks the 18th born at the Cincinnati Zoo since 1989. There are approximately 15,000 okapis globally, the zoo estimates. Habitat destruction and poaching have harmed the species ...

The origins of giraffe’s imposing stature and associated cardiovascular adaptations are unknown. Okapi, which lacks these unique features, is giraffe’s closest relative and provides a useful ...