When competition for resources is fierce, being able to reach food that other animals cannot get to is a bonus. Possessing a foot-long tongue is a huge advantage and this is where the okapi excels. In ...

Itching your eye is not exactly easy when you only have four hard hooves. But as this adorable clip from the San Diego Zoo shows us, that is not a problem when you are a little okapi. All you need to ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Kwasi the okapi is a solitary creature that lives behind the scenes at the Nashville Zoo. “Currently, only about half our animals are on exhibit. The rest actually live ...

HOUSTON – The Houston Zoo has put on display a baby okapi, a solitary species that in the wild is found deep in the dense rainforests of sub-Saharan Africa. The male calf, who was born April 20 to ...

YOUR NEW FAVORITE FURRY ONE: Books and posters and videos and stories told us much of the animal world when we were youngsters. We gazed upon illustrations of fish and mammals and birds and asked our ...