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Article: THE OKAPI.(Review) (book reviews)
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- September 22, 1999
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THE OKAPI Mysterious Animal of Congo-Zaire
Susan Lyndaker Lindsey, Mary Neel Green, and Cynthia L. Bennett. 1999; 131 pp. $17.95. University of Texas Press.
On the border of Uganda and Sudan, I drank deeply with a Portuguese big game hunter. Loaded on whiskey, he told the tale of having sung opera in the rainforest; as he sang, accompanying his portable cassette player, an okapi appeared ... which he promptly shot. Here, in this, the first book on the okapi, I understood that okapi hear infrasound, and that the Pagliacci arias perhaps engaged the ill-fated male, which may have wondered whose bass notes called from the game hunter's campsite.
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