... when playing 20 questions, I am often asked "what is your favorite animal?" My response is always "an okapi". Then people always ask me "tf? Did u just sneeze or something??".
So I am here to educate you...
This is an Okapi (oh- cop- ee)

i even have pictures of a baby ❤️️❤️️❤️️

omgeeeee it's so cuteeeee

*cough* anyways... the reason why this is my favorite animal, is bc when I was younger, my Girl Scout troop adopted an Okapi at the local zoo. I've been in love with them ever since.
Now, you may think that it is a pretty ugly animal, and depending on the picture, I might agree, but it's so ugly that it's adorable 😍.

With its white-and-black striped hindquarters and front legs, it looks like it must be related to zebras! But take a look at an okapi's head, and you'll notice a resemblance to giraffes. The okapi is indeed the only living relative of the giraffe.

Okapis are hard to find in the wild. Their natural habitat is the Ituri Forest, a dense rain forest in central Africa. Okapis are very wary, and their highly developed hearing alerts them to run when they hear humans in the distance. In fact, while natives of the Ituri Forest knew of okapis and would occasionally catch one in their pit traps, scientists did not know of the animal until 1900. The secretive nature of okapis and the difficulty most humans have of traveling in their habitat have made okapis hard to observe in the wild. Therefore, researchers can only estimate how many okapis live there. It is believed that there are currently about 25,000 okapis in the wild.
As I mentioned earlier, there is one at my local zoo, named Rose, but when I was in Cali a while ago, I got a chance to see the one at the San Diego Zoo

The lighting is dark, probably bc it was like 100 degrees F... but *shrugs*

I *grins* I even got a stuffed animal!!

This is also a bad picture, because I am sleep deprived... anyways I'm gonna go text my fiancé thetenthweasley LOVE YOU ❤️️❤️️❤️️ go follow her, even though u probably already are, she's awesome!

Okie byeee