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...Today was a good showing of where we stand," sophomore George Polsky said. "We showed that we have the power of a wooly mammoth, the stamina of an okapi, the spring of a wallaby and the intensity of a mother guarding her cubs. In a nutshell, we're ready for Yale...
...Vincennes Zoo, Paris, let it be known last week that Ebola, a female infant okapi-a rare, sawed-off semigi-raffe from the Belgian Congo rain forest -had lived three weeks so far without untoward incident. This is big zoo news; other okapis have been born in captivity, but Ebola is the first to survive so long. Assistant Director Paul Vullier explains that female okapis suffer in captivity from "deviation of maternal instinct." If they do not starve their infants by refusing to let them suckle, they trample them to death. And what pushes them into their fiercest outbursts...
...that fronts on Rhodesia and is the site of Shinkolobwe, the world's richest uranium mine. Between is the timeless jungle (48% of the Congo is forested), with beetles the size of pigeons, dwarf antelope no bigger than terriers, bearded Pygmies with humplike buttocks who hunt the rare okapi (half antelope, half giraffe...
...tractor trains, salvaged from the 1939 World's Fair, help visitors get around its spacious preserve. The Bronx has the greatest variety of species, and some of the greatest oddities. Its bongo, a reddish antelope with white rings around its middle, is the only one in captivity. Its okapi, built like a giraffe in front and a zebra behind, is the only one in the U.S. This spring the Bronx made a big splash with the importation of three duck-billed platypuses, the first to be brought to the U.S. from Australia since...
Ruhe alone had six agents abroad (he had 20 before the war). They were looking for anything they could get at a reasonable price. Most of all they wanted to buy the okapi, a purplish-brown, short-necked relative of the giraffe, worth $10,000 to $15,000, the reddish, striped, forest antelope, known as the bongo, sometimes priced as high as $20,000. There is only one of each now in this country both in New York's Bronx Zoo. The Indian rhinoceros* and giant panda were in the same diamond and sable class. Less valuable were Siberian...