The discovery of the okapi shocked the world in 1901. African explorer, Henry Stanley, called it “donkey-like,” while others thought it a new species of zebra, given the stripes. However, this ...

A viral TikTok alleged the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden "successfully" crossbred a zebra with a giraffe. It then posed the question of whether or not the breeding was ethical. There's one small ...

Have you ever wondered how giraffes got their characteristic long necks? We may be a little closer to knowing the answer. For the first time, scientists have sequenced the genomes of the giraffe and ...

Researchers for the first time have sequenced the genomes of the giraffe and the okapi – the squatter, short-necked member of the Giraffidae family. Their findings, described in Nature Communications ...

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 McClatchy News ...

San DiegoSan Diego — Okapis are the closest living relatives of giraffes. And like their longer-necked cousins, okapis are endangered. So the recent birth of an okapi at the San Diego Zoo was cause ...