THIS IS ONE OF SOME OF MOST ANIMALS YOU"LL NEVER NO EXIZED!!!! It was not until Harry Johnston sent two pieces of skin from the okapi's (Okapia johnstoni) rump to London in 1900 that this member of the giraffe family was found to be a new species. Local people had, of course, known of its existence and hunted it for hundreds of years.
Except at mating time the okapi lives a solitary life, spending its time browsing
on forest vegetation, using its long black tongue to pull leaves and buds from the trees and occasionally stooping to graze on grass or fungi. Although nowhere near as long as that of a giraffe, the okapi's neck is used to denote dominance or submission depending on how it is carried. Both sexes rub their necks on tree trunks to scent-mark their territories. The young spend their first two months hiding in a nest until they have grown sufficiently to be able to evade predators.