Rediscovered Okapi
Series: October 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
From: Pat Maxwell
Length: 00:01:30
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Sometimes good old Mother Nature seems a bit mixed up. For example, the rare okapi looks like an unlikely cross between a giraffe and a zebra. It was first discovered in 1901, and just fifty years later, the okapi was believed to be extinct -- except in zoos and a single park in the Congo. No trace of the okapi had been seen in the wild until last year, when researchers found 17 okapi tracks. The World Wildlife Fund announced it had evidence that okapis still lived in the Congo's Virunga National Park. One reason for the 50-year disappearance was...
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Sometimes good old Mother Nature seems a bit mixed up. For example, the rare okapi looks like an unlikely cross between a giraffe and a zebra. It was first discovered in 1901, and just fifty years later, the okapi was believed to be extinct -- except in zoos and a single park in the Congo. No trace of the okapi had been seen in the wild until last year, when researchers found 17 okapi tracks. The World Wildlife Fund announced it had evidence that okapis still lived in the Congo's Virunga National Park. One reason for the 50-year disappearance was...
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