Meet the baby Okapi: Sacramento Zoo to reveal winning name

(FOX40.COM) — The Sacramento Zoo will reveal the winning name of its first-ever baby okapi during a live celebration Saturday ...
MLive

African species known as ‘forest giraffe’ joins Michigan zoo’s ‘diverse animal family’

LANSING, MI – A Michigan zoo is celebrating the arrival of a new species. Staff at Potter Park Zoo in Lansing announced this week the arrival of Elombe, a five-year-old male okapi. He is now visible ...
UPI

San Diego Zoo Safari Park welcomes birth of okapi calf

April 8 (UPI) --The San Diego Zoo Safari Park announced the birth of a male okapi, the only living relative of the giraffe. The okapi, also sometimes known as a "forest giraffe" or "zebra giraffe," ...
The Advocate

Meet Asili, an 8-year-old endangered okapi expected to give birth later this year in Louisiana

An 8-year-old okapi at the Freeport-McMoRan Audubon Species Survival Center on the West Bank is pregnant and will give birth to a calf later this year, an encouraging development for the shy and ...
Environment News Service

Giraffes Reclassified to Four Distinct Species, Not Just One

WINDHOEK, Namibia, September 8, 2025 (ENS) – A fresh assessment of the tallest living land animal and largest ruminant on Earth has officially recognized four distinct species of giraffes, overturning ...
AOL

4 Species of Giraffe Explained: How Scientists Rethought the Classification of Giraffa

The official 4-species status was achieved only after reviewing recent genetic, morphological, and biogeographic studies on giraffes. The great reduction of price in genetic and genomic analyses ...
WUSA

Surprise! Maryland Zoo welcomes a very tall bundle of joy

BALTIMORE — Get ready animal lovers, because the Maryland Zoo just dropped a surprise announcement that’s six feet tall, 58 kilograms of pure adorable, and already stealing the spotlight — a baby ...