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Article: Brookfield Zoo presents baby okapi: Rare animal is staff's newest pride and joy.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- November 22, 2006
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Byline: John Biemer
Nov. 22--The Brookfield Zoo's latest addition is tall, dark and handsome: A baby okapi, a rare and unusual relative of giraffes that's native to the dense, remote tropical rainforests of Congo. The female okapi was born Sept. 27 and named Sauda, a Swahili word meaning "dark beauty," the zoo announced Tuesday. The baby has been off exhibit in a quiet indoor "nesting" area with its mother--and visible to visitors through a video feed. Though they grow to be as big as a horse, okapis are quiet, secretive animals in the wild that were first described to western science as "forest giraffes" as late as 1901. Newborns nest much like a newly ...
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