you might start to see the resemblance between the two animals. Like a giraffe, the okapi has a long neck, large, perky ears, and cloven hooves. It even has a dark, extra-long, flexible tongue ...

For example, like giraffes, okapi wield a dark tongue (long enough to clean their ... who refer to the animal as o'api. The striped patterns on the okapi's rump also resemble the design of Lese ...

This tongue is one of the most useful parts ... the okapi helps keep the forest ecosystem in balance. Quiet and shy The okapi is not a loud animal. It communicates mostly through scent markings ...