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Thursday 8 October 2026

An okapi standing in long grass. Its body is reddish brown and its legs have bold black and white stripes.
Photo: Charles Miller · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Okapi

It has stripes like a zebra, but its only living relative is the giraffe.

Lives in
RainforestRainforests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and nowhere else in the wild
More about the okapiScientific name, size and Red List status
Scientific name
Okapia johnstoni
Size
1.5–1.7 m tall at the shoulder
IUCN Red List
Endangered

One of 49,505 species on the IUCN Red List that are threatened with extinction. See the assessment

Fact source: Britannica

This week

Every animal so far
  1. Mon 5Thorny devil
  2. Tue 6Golden tortoise beetle
  3. Wed 7Pacific barreleye
  4. Thu 8OkapiViewing
  5. Fri 9KeaToday
  6. Sat 10Tomorrow’s animalin 19 h 45 min
  7. Sun 11

Why Animall

People can’t care about animals they have never heard of.

Scientists still discover thousands of new animal species every year, while many others are disappearing because of habitat loss and climate change. Some die out before anyone has described them.

10,000+

new animal species are described every year.

University of Arizona, 2025

86%

of species on Earth, and 91% in the ocean, have not been described yet.

Mora et al., 2011

73%

average drop in monitored wildlife populations between 1970 and 2020.

WWF Living Planet Report, 2024