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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 November 2024. Species of mammal This article is about the animal. For other uses, see Okapi (disambiguation). Okapi Male okapi at Beauval Zoo Female okapi at Zoo Miami Conservation status Endangered (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class ...
Bongos require salt in their diets, and are known to regularly visit natural salt licks. Bongos are also known to eat burnt wood after a storm, as a rich source of salt and minerals. [16] [17] This behavior is believed to be a means of getting salts and minerals into their diets. This behavior has also been reported in the okapi.
An okapi. Mammals: okapis, elephants, sloths, possums, giant pandas, koalas and various species of monkey, i.e. New World howlers and Old World colobines; Birds: The hoatzin of the Amazon region and the kākāpō of New Zealand; Reptiles: iguanas [7] Insects: various kinds of caterpillars, sawflies, beetles, leaf miners and Orthoptera
The young okapi marks the 18th born at the Cincinnati Zoo since 1989. There are approximately 15,000 okapis globally, the zoo estimates. Habitat destruction and poaching have harmed the species ...
Most organisms do not all fit neatly into either group, however. Some species are highly specialized (the most extreme case being monophagous, eating one specific type of food), others less so, and some can tolerate many different environments. In other words, there is a continuum from highly specialized to broadly generalist species.
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Samotherium major (middle) in comparison with the okapi (below) and giraffe. The anatomy of Samotherium appears to have shown a transition to a giraffe-like neck. S. major and S. boissieri. A 2015 study found that Samotherium had a neck intermediate in length between the giraffe and the okapi, judging from examination of specimens of S. major ...
In okapi, the male's ossicones are smaller in proportion to the head, and taper towards their tips, forming a sharper point than the comparatively blunt giraffe ossicone. Whereas female giraffes have reduced ossicones, female okapi lack ossicones entirely. The morphology of ossicones in the extinct relatives of giraffes and okapi varies widely.