Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Captive Okapi Birth

Oklahoma City Zoo recently saw an okapi birth, the fourth time at that zoo since 1995. (News source.)

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Okapi Survives in Congo

WCS survey cameras photographed an okapi in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park. (Eurekalert)

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Saturday, June 02, 2007

Okapis on NPR

There is a brief report on the radio program Living on Earth regarding okapis. "Radio Deutsche Welle's Rupert Cook traveled to the Congo in search of the okapi and to find out about conservation efforts." You can read the transcript or listen to the audio here.
(I'm uncertain, though, why they say that European colonists called them the "African unicorn." There are stories of a "unicorn" in Africa, but I don't recall any folkloric connection to the okapi. If anyone can provide a citation for such, I'd be interested...)

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