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Before you go there, here is some helpful information about the Okapi.
Okapi (Okapia johnstoni) are small (only five feet high), short-necked relatives of the giraffes with similar skin-covered horns and a long black tongue. Their weight varies from 465 to 550 pounds.
They are cud-chewing mammals. Their coloring is like plum, the sides of the neck reddish, the upper parts of the legs are barred like a zebra. They live in the dense forests of the Congo. Unknown until 1901, Okapis are still very rare in zoos.
They use their long black tongue to strip leaves from branches. Their diet consists of buds, tree shoots, grass, ferns, fruit, and fungus.
Okapis are shy, nocturnal animals that live alone or in pairs. In captivity, the female will come into heat almost every 40 days. The young, generally just one, is born after a gestation period of about 425 days. The young weighs around 35 pounds at birth. The mother will nurse her young for about three to four months.
The Okapis lifespan is about 33 years in captivity.
