Capt. Boyd Alexander, writing from Angu, Africa, says the Alexander-Gosling expedition obtained the skin of an okapi, and, furthermore, saw the animal alive. View Full Article in Timesmachine ...

The juxtaposition of this animal and this song brings up questions of what we as humans are doing when we bring these creatures into zoos to gawk at them. Okapi may look like a type of deer or ...

The okapi tongue is long and prehensile ... You can see in the above clip the way the animal wraps its tongue around the twigs, drawing the leaves into its mouth. The elongated shape of its ...