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😍 EXCITING BABY NEWS! 😍 Oni the okapi - who featured in last week’s ITV documentary, London Zoo: An Extraordinary Year - has given birth to a baby girl! Meet adorable Ede. 🥰 As viewers saw last week, Oni's lockdown pregnancy posed some logistical challenges for the team, but keepers remained by her side to make sure she had the highest standard of care throughout her third trimester. Mother and baby are doing really well. Ede is already a feisty young calf and has been bouncing happily around

Okapis have prehensile tongues — meaning their tongues have adapted to grab and grip. These artiodactyl mammals utilize this ability to grab food, wash their eyelids, clean out their ears, and swat insects from their withers. #WildlifeWednesday 🦓 | Science Channel

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5.4K views · 124 reactions | www.okapiconservation.org | Okapi Conservation Project | Facebook

The Okapi Conservation Project (OCP) works with the Institute Congolaise pour la Conservation do la Nature (ICCN) to support and improve the livelihood of local people and their environment. This includes an agroforestry programme that helps provide seeds and training to improve farming yields using sustainable practices. OCP plans to plant 100,000 seedlings by the end of 2023 to combat deforestation and preserve Okapi habitat. Strengthening relationships with local and indigenous communities ha

Okapis are extremely elusive animals, making this video footage of an okapi foraging in the Democratic Republic of Congo incredibly rare. Thanks to Okapi Conservation Project for sharing this footage! | Wildlife Conservation Network