Word: bezuidenhout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...giraffe family and denizen only of Ituri Forest in the Belgian Congo. Okapi have been captured, but never photographed in their native environment, which is one of the most dense jungles known to man. Distinctive feature of the okapi is its striped hindquarters.* Therefore when Explorer Cornelius P. Bezuidenhout brought back from the Ituri section closeup pictures of the jungle okapi, Illustrated London News not only featured his photographs and ran a long story by him, but used a closeup rear-view of a female okapi as its full-page frontispiece last fortnight...
...Explorer Bezuidenhout explained he had accomplished his feat by disguising himself as a wild pig, going about grunting. Once a male okapi- who failed to be photographed- kicked the pig. Once an elephant charged the pig, made Mr. Bezuidenhout evacuate the pigskin, which it tusked and trampled...