Saturday, 20 December 2014

Strangest animal world ... Okabe

  There are a lot of exotic animals in the world and most famous of these animals is Okapi animal is an animal from the original mammals to the rainforests of Ituri, and located in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Central  Africa, although the okapi bears striped markings resembling zebras, it is closely associated such as the giraffe.



     Okabe be dark reddish-backs, with striking
 horizontal white stripes on the front, back, and          legs, making them resemble zebras from a distance. These signs may help young people to    follow their mothers through dense rainforest, and may also serve as camouflage   .
   Body similar to the giraffe's body shape, but it is much shorter necks, such as the giraffe okapi has long legs and a strong body, both types very long  (about 35 cm), using a flexible tongues to strip the leaves and buds of trees

  San okapi is also very tall enough for the animal to wash the eyelids and clean its ears (inside and out). This non-sticky tongue brushes and bluish-gray color like that of a giraffe, okapi males have horns leather-covered short, they have big ears to help them discover their predator, and the Tigers.

   Aloukaba body with a reddish-brown color, gray and his face, legs and his plan in black and white and believed that these signs to help young people to follow their mothers in the dense rain forests, which also serves as a disguise. His tongue long blue tongue like a giraffe used in the organization of his ears, and two above his head. The most important characteristic of Aloukaba the hind legs are like my zebra creating an imbalance in the belief of its kind, scientists or the independent breed him. The famous Aloukaba animals in shame, delight difficult to see them in the woods.
Body shape is similar to the shape of the giraffe but the okapis have necks much shorter and despite the close relationship that combines okapi and giraffe, it differs in size and Luna Fartfall even shoulders no more than meter and a half, and the legs and neck shorter lists giraffe neck both types her tongue very long (about 30 cm) flexible and blue color used in the withdrawal of the buds and leaves of trees

   Okabe animals are not social animals, and prefer to live in large areas, secluded. This has led to problems with the population, okapi given the size of shrinking habitats, and this causes the shortage of land through land development rights and other social factors is limited.Resides in the rain forests of Central Africa, particularly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is believed today about the existence of 15 thousand Aloukaba mostly resides in the Congo. Face this threat in his native animal and that human migration and mining activities and the search for natural resources in the area of his presence.
    Okabe animals prefer to live at altitudes of 500 to 1,000 m, but may live above 1,000 meters in the east of the mountainous rain forest, because there is a large amount of rain in these forests, okapi group is limited to high mountain forests to swamps in the east and southeast of the country and swamp forests less than 500 meters to the west, and the coast of savannah / Sudan in the north, and open forests to the south, and found the most common in the Wamba and Epulu

   Okabe are herbivores, feeding on tree buds and leaves, and grasses, ferns, fruit, and fungi, and many plant species, have also been examined stool okapi have revealed they consume coal from trees burned by lightning.                                                     
Okabe classified as endangered since 2013; endangered by habitat destruction and poaching, and prepared in the world is estimated 10.000 to 35.000                        Bewildered Some scientists who have studied Aloukaba in the past, the fact that the combination of its shape giraffes and zebra.

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