Hunting the Rare Okapi

[MiG25]

 

[TrevorJ]

Interesting find!

I saw an Okapi at Disney World when we were there for my son's birthday last year.
Native only to northern DRC (formally Zaire)
Have been a protected animal by law in DRC since 1933.
Gestation of 440 days, weird fact.

 

[Ardent]

Learned something new, wasn’t aware there was another extant member of the giraffe family. Good post, I have some old articles from the turn of the century and after I should dig up and post.

 

[MiG25]

Learned something new, wasn’t aware there was another extant member of the giraffe family. Good post, I have some old articles from the turn of the century and after I should dig up and post.

Indeed, the Okapi was one of the few large land animals that became known to science in the 20th Century.

Some of these old stories are pretty neat; hunting grizzlies with lariats, hunting flamingos, hunting beluga whales, etc.

 

[medvedqc]

i ve heard they were in CAR also but no more at the time i was there.

 

[Boombb]

Great post ty!

 

[9.3mauser]

There's a chapter in Jay Mellon's "African Hunter" about okapi hunting.