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Okapi

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Okapi

An okapi at Disney's Animal Kingdom

An okapi at Disney's Animal Kingdom

Scientific classification

Kingdom:

Animalia

Phylum:

Chordata

Class:

Mammalia

Order:

Artiodactyla

Family:

Giraffidae

Subfamily:

Okapiinae

Genus:

Okapia
Lankester, 1901

Species:

O. johnstoni

Binomial name

Okapia johnstoni
(P.L. Sclater, 1901)

 

 

Okapi distribution.

Okapi distribution.

The okapi (Okapia johnstoni) is a mammal of the Ituri Rainforest in central Africa. Although it bears striped markings reminiscent of the zebra, it is most closely related to the giraffe. Native just to the Ituri forests situated in the north east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, it was known only to the local people until 1901.