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 ...

One word summarizes what’s new at South Bend’s Potawatomi Zoo this summer: okapi. Not familiar? The zoo hopes to teach you. Okapi (pronounced oh-KAHP-ee) are an endangered species from Africa, a ...

An illustration of the giraffe, Samotherium major and okapi necks and skulls. For years, there has been scant fossil evidence showing how the giraffe evolved to have such an admirably long neck. But ...

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 ...

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 ...