The Okapi Wildlife Reserve occupies about one-fifth of the Ituri forest in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Congo river basin, of which the reserve and forest are a part, is ...

The okapi, also sometimes known as a "forest giraffe ... in the sun and running around in the grass" under the watchful eye of his mother, the zoo said. "Meli is a very attentive mother, making ...