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Elusive giraffe cousin
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okapi
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The okapi ( Okapia johnstoni ), is a giraffid artiodactyl mammal native to the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Central Africa. Although the okapi bears striped markings reminiscent of zebras , it is most closely related to the giraffe ...
Usage examples of okapi.
Williams was especially anxious to capture alive an okapi, one of the wiliest of African creatures, and Ki-Gor, Tembu George and Helene had agreed to lend a hand in the difficult task.
The wildebeests or elands or okapis are where they thought, in the numbers and condition they estimated.
Naked pelvises sat astride the ivory-colored spines of horses and mules, zebras and okapis, kudu and pronghorn.
They've agreed to let us keep a few of the major exhibits: the bongo and okapi, Ahmed of Marsabit, the record Nile perch, the last impala, the last cheetah.
And so he rushed from one side of the boat to the other while a team of twenty stout helladotheria, looking something like giant okapis, were hitched to the craft in preparation for its being hauled up the long rollered way to Muriah.