If you liked this story, share it with other people. The okapi, an endangered species that looks like a cross between a large antelope and a zebra, but is most closely related to the giraffe, is found ...

Of all wild animals, the okapi* is considered the shyest, the most subtle. The first white man who ever tracked and shot one and brought back the skin and skeleton has arrived in Manhattan, on his way ...

A nudge above the equator in one of the most biodiverse places in Africa lives an almost-mythical mammal that few people have ever seen. The striped okapi is often described as half-zebra, ...

HITHERTO it has been considered that the horns of the male okapi, with the exception of the bare antler-like terminal caps, are permanently covered with hairy skin, like those of giraffes. The skin ...

Researchers for the first time have sequenced the genomes of the giraffe and the okapi – the squatter, short-necked member of the Giraffidae family. Their findings, described in Nature Communications ...

MR. CUTHBERT CHRISTY, known to a good U many people by his medical research work and botanical collecting in West and in Central Africa, recently spent several years in the service of the Belgian ...