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Male okapi displaying his striking horizontal stripes. The okapi is a medium-sized giraffid, standing 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) tall at the shoulder. Its average body length is about 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) and its weight ranges from 200 to 350 kg (440 to 770 lb). [23] It has a long neck, and large and flexible ears.
An okapi is a giraffid artiodactyl mammal native to the Ituri Rainforest in central Africa. Okapi may also refer to: De Havilland Okapi, a British two-seat day bomber of the 1910s built by de Havilland; Okapi (knife), a lockback or slipjoint knife originally produced in 1902 for export to Germany's colonies in Africa
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 Giraffidae are a family of ruminant artiodactyl mammals that share a recent common ancestor with deer and bovids.This family, once a diverse group spread throughout Eurasia and Africa, presently comprises only two extant genera, the giraffe (between one and eight, usually four, species of Giraffa, depending on taxonomic interpretation) and the okapi (the only known species of Okapia).
The following is a list of tautonyms: zoological names of species consisting of two identical words (the generic name and the specific name have the same spelling). Such names are allowed in zoology, but not in botany, where the two parts of the name of a species must differ (though differences as small as one letter are permitted, as in cumin, Cuminum cyminum).
From scientific name of a mammal: This is a redirect from a scientific name of a mammal (or group of mammals) to a vernacular ("common") name. From a monotypic taxon : This is a redirect from a monotypic taxon to its only lower-ranking member.
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Various carnivorans, with feliforms to the left, and caniforms to the right. Carnivora is an order of placental mammals that have specialized in primarily eating flesh. Members of this order are called carnivorans, or colloquially carnivores, though the term more properly refers to any meat-eating organisms, and some carnivoran species are omnivores or herbivores.