The Okapi - between legend and science


	The Okapi - between legend and science
michellezm
4-17-2008 3:05 PM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b8707825-3575-4a80-aa95-45d4324374df/F9372B66-DEBD-4404-AD94-17B414402817/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.zoo.ac.za/newsletter/issues/02/07.html" href="http://www.zoo.ac.za/newsletter/issues/02/07.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.zoo.ac.za</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.zoo.ac.za/newsletter/issues/02/07.html">The Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly Zaire, is the most biologically diverse country in Africa. It has the largest portion of the continent's tropical forests and tops the list for Africa in virtually every group of organisms except plants (second to South Africa).</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.zoo.ac.za/newsletter/issues/02/07.html">Nineteenth century explorers sometimes caught a fleeting glimpse of the okapi's striped backside as the animal fled through the bushes, leading to speculation that the okapi was some sort of rainforest zebra. The word <I>okapi</I> was derived from the pygmy word O'Api, which sounded like 'okapi' to the explorers. It was known to the Pygmy as a sacred animal.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.zoo.ac.za/newsletter/issues/02/07.html">Okapi first became known to the scientific community through the British explorer and author Sir Harry Johnston at the turn of the century when he undertook a journey into the Congo to discover more about this mysterious creature</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.zoo.ac.za/newsletter/issues/02/07.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.zoo.ac.za/img/92056824-28A4-4D5F-A47A-95CEB53DF27F" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.zoo.ac.za/newsletter/issues/02/07.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.zoo.ac.za/img/EE53FD64-C91D-42A4-BE85-EBD75C26EC86" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.zoo.ac.za/newsletter/issues/02/07.html">Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.zoo.ac.za/newsletter/issues/02/07.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.zoo.ac.za/img/80856DC9-1D1F-42D4-8878-0C95F62964A0" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.zoo.ac.za/newsletter/issues/02/07.html">The Pygmy peoples </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.zoo.ac.za/newsletter/issues/02/07.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.zoo.ac.za/img/3D8947F8-920A-4FF1-A0A5-2298E9CF325A" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.zoo.ac.za/newsletter/issues/02/07.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.zoo.ac.za/img/BDD3254C-0BFA-455B-AC6F-768906C1596E" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F9372B66-DEBD-4404-AD94-17B414402817/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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