How to Use okapi in a Sentence

okapi

noun
Definition of okapinext
  • The calf, offspring of first-time mom Olivia, is the first okapi born at Disney World since 2018.
    — Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Biologists think the zebra-like stripes of the okapi — a.k.a.
    — Brandon Keim, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2008
  • In fact, their endangered status is part of the reason why (okapi) Meghan got her name.
    — Evelyn Wang, Teen Vogue, 18 Jan. 2018
  • On the other hand, the giraffe has lost at least 53 olfactory genes compared with the okapi.
    — Sofia Moutinho, Science | AAAS, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Scientists first became aware of the okapi, which has a long tongue and legs proportioned like those of a giraffe, at the turn of the 20th century.
    — National Geographic, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Meghan the baby okapi was born at a London zoo in December after a 30-minute labor.
    — Felice León, The Root, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Some of those ancestors wandered toward the rain forest and present-day Congo and eventually gave rise to the okapi.
    — Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Behavior and reproduction Active during the day, the elusive okapi prefers to be alone.
    — National Geographic, 2 Mar. 2020
  • The new animal, named Ede by zookeepers, was born on September 21 after its mother, Oni the okapi, went into labor the previous evening, according to a news release.
    — Ally Mauch, PEOPLE.com, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Its silhouette is also quite different, with the nine-foot tall creature resembling a moose with a long neck or an okapi, the other member of the giraffid family that’s alive today.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Discokeryx likely resembled an okapi, a forest-dwelling cousin of modern giraffes.
    — New York Times, 2 June 2022
  • To figure out just how giraffe necks stretched, researchers from the Giraffe Genome Project compared the giraffe genome to that of the okapi, their nearest relative and the only other surviving member of the family Giraffidae.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 17 May 2016
  • Bohmann’s group collected 40 air samples in three locations around the Copenhagen Zoo: the tropical rainforest house, the okapi stable and in the outdoor space between animal enclosures.
    — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2022
  • The study also indicates that our remaining giraffids, the giraffe and the okapi, are actually pretty far apart in evolutionary terms reports Weintraub.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 3 Nov. 2017

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