The okapi calf stops for a snack. He is already nearly triple his birth size, the zoo says. The new baby, who hasn’t been named yet, was born to first-time mother and father Mahaheli and Mpangi.

A unique-looking but adorable baby is wobbling around the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. From behind, he looks like a zebra. In fact, from toe to tummy, he appears to be fully zebra. But from the ...

Though zebra stripes adorn his hind legs, okapis are more closely-related to giraffes. In fact, besides the giraffe itself, the okapi is the only other living member of the giraffid family.

A unique-looking but adorable baby is wobbling around the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. From behind, he looks like a zebra. In fact, from toe to tummy, he appears to be fully zebra. But from the ...

The okapi, known as “the forest giraffe,” is similar in appearance to a deer crossed with a zebra. Scientists say there is no exact number of okapi in the wild, but their estimates are grim.

A species survival center in Louisiana is awaiting a special delivery: a newborn okapi. The “zebra giraffe” is not an animal you’ll often see at a zoo, the Audubon Nature Institute told ...

While they look like a zebra’s distant cousin, okapi are actually the closest living relative of the giraffe, and one of the oldest living mammal species on earth, according to Sacramento Zoo ...

The calf is from a species called okapi, the only living relative of the giraffe, the zoo said in a news release. Okapis are from the rainforest of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Okapi can weigh 440 to 770 pounds. Its long neck and stripes “are most likely the source of its zebra giraffe nickname,” the World Atlas said.

Okapi can weigh 440 to 770 pounds. Its long neck and stripes “are most likely the source of its zebra giraffe nickname,” the World Atlas said.