Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The San Diego Zoo recently welcomed a new Okapi calf to its animal community. This mysterious and adorable creature was born at ...

Kora the okapi calf is starting to gain confidence and explore her surroundings after nesting with mom Ada since her November 2021 birth Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working ...

The okapi is one of the rainforest’s most mysterious mammals. At first glance, it looks like someone stitched together a zebra and a giraffe. Its hind legs have striking white stripes, its face is ...

The San Diego Zoo just welcomed a special new addition: a rare okapi calf! “The San Diego Zoo wildlife care team welcomed a spunky new okapi calf on September 2nd,” the zoo shared in an Instagram post ...

The okapi is one of the world’s most elusive mammals. In 1904, the British explorer Percy Powell-Cotton set his sights on obtaining a specimen for his growing natural history collection. He succeeded ...

"The birth of this calf is very special as this incredible species continues to face many challenges in its native range," the zoo said Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE.

Beni, the okapi calf born last summer at Walt Disney World, can now been seen by the public on the savanna at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge. He is accompanied there by his mother Olivia. (The father ...

The discovery of the elusive okapi, once believed to be a mythical unicorn, was one of the most exciting taxonomic findings of the twentieth century. To protect this shy, giraffe-like animal, wildlife ...