Okapi
Okapia johnstoni
Mondonga (Lingala)
Conservation status
Endangered. The species is at risk from habitat loss due to forest clearance and development, as well as poaching.
Habitat
Tropical rainforests
Biology
These solitary, diurnal creatures are only rarely observed in pairs or small groups. They feed on leaves, which they pluck with their long prehensile tongue.
Diorama
1957–63
Okapis taxidermically prepared in Bern were exhibited at the Brussels World Fair in 1958.
Provenance
1958, Democratic Republic of the Congo, via the AfricaMuseum, Tervuren, Belgium, male and juvenile; 15 August 1956, Basel Zoological Gardens, female