Celebrate #WorldOkapiDay with Mosi the okapi and Zookeeper Michael as they share insights about this fascinating and elusive species! 🤠 P.S. Have you heard the news?! You can now meet (and feed!) Mosi on a Backstage Pass Tour ➡ www.nashvillezoo.org/backstage | Nashville Zoo

In a dense forest with dappled light, it’s nearly impossible to see the elusive okapi! Its broken pattern of dark and light stripes helps it hide from predators. As herbivores, okapi feed on leaves, grasses, ferns, fruits and other understory plants. They use their long blue-black tongues, that can stretch up to 18 inches, to reach and grasp leaves. | Bronx Zoo

4.7K views · 143 reactions | Okapi 漣 Rare Creature of the Congo! | 1 Minute Animals  Ever heard of the mysterious Okapi? Meet the Okapi, a rare and elusive animal with stripes like a zebra and a tongue long enough to lick its own ears! #Okapi #AfricanWildlife #wildlife #WildAnimals #WeirdAnimals #cuteanimals | 1 Minute Animals | Facebook

54 reactions | Okapis are extremely elusive animals, making this video footage of an okapi foraging in the Democratic Republic of Congo incredibly rare. Thanks to Okapi Conservation Project for sharing this footage! | Wildlife Conservation Network | Facebook

Recently captured by our camera traps deep in the Okapi Wildlife Reserve, this footage shows an okapi moving freely through its undisturbed rainforest home—a testament to the power of conservation. Protecting these forests means protecting the okapi and countless other species that depend on them. | Okapi Conservation Project

8.3K views · 736 reactions | In the wild, the incredibly shy okapi is...