Okapis are primarily diurnal, although recent photo captures have challenged this long held assumption.

Okapis have several methods of communicating their territory, including scent glands on each foot that produce a tar-like substance, as well as urine marking.

Okapis are essentially solitary, coming together only to breed, with the exception of mothers and offspring.

Antwerp Zoo was the world's first zoo with Okapis in 1918.

Okapis are long ( from the head to the base of the tail ) and stand high at the shoulder.

Okapis forage along fixed, well-trodden paths through the forest.

Okapis prefer altitudes of 500 to 1, 000 m, but may venture above 1, 000 m in the eastern montane rainforests.

Okapis are most common in the Wamba and Epulu areas.

Okapis are herbivores, eating tree leaves and buds, grass, ferns, fruit, and fungi.

File: Aa okapis chesterzoo. jpg | Okapis at Chester Zoo

* Moor temple ( 1885 ): it still houses Okapis.

He had the same bullet head of curly reddish hair but he didn't have Jim's pokerfaced humor or his brains or his charm.

They have a soft, long fur colored grey-brown to reddish on top with a generally brighter underbelly.

In 1923, he underwent two operations to remove his cataracts: the paintings done while the cataracts affected his vision have a general reddish tone, which is characteristic of the vision of cataract victims.

A Chinese historian of astronomy, Xi Zezong, has claimed that a " small reddish star " observed near Jupiter in 362 BC by Chinese astronomer Gan De may have been Ganymede, predating Galileo's discovery by around two millennia.

While most Black-legged Kittiwakes do, indeed, have dark-grey legs, some have pinkish-grey to reddish legs, making colouration a somewhat unreliable identifying marker.

Newborn moose have fur with a reddish hue in contrast to the brown appearance of an adult.

Early neodymium glasses made in the 1930s have a more reddish or orange tinge than modern versions which are more cleanly purple, due to the difficulties in removing the last traces of praseodymium in the era when fractional crystallization technology had to be relied on.

The colour of the sand on the beaches of Nevis is variable: on a lot of the bigger beaches the sand is a yellow grey in color, but some beaches on the southern coast have darker, reddish, or even black sand.

Rolling hills, woods, reddish white sand beaches, ocean coves and the famous red soil have given Prince Edward Island a reputation as a province of outstanding natural beauty.

Historians have theorized that this " reddish appearance " resulted from either red autumn foliage or red clay on portions of the shore.

When one of the components has the strongest intensity, the color is a hue near this primary color ( reddish, greenish, or bluish ), and when two components have the same strongest intensity, then the color is a hue of a secondary color ( a shade of cyan, magenta or yellow ).

Dr Lee Illis of Guy's Hospital in London wrote a paper in 1963 entitled On Porphyria and the Aetiology of Werewolves, in which he argues that historical accounts on werewolves could have in fact been referring to victims of congenital porphyria, stating how the symptoms of photosensitivity, reddish teeth and psychosis could have been grounds for accusing a sufferer of being a werewolf.

A wavelength of 656. 3 nm is in the red part of the spectrum, which causes the chromosphere to have its characteristic reddish colour.

Fawns have reddish brown fur and southern pudú fawns have white spots running the length of their back.

Most species are nocturnal and colored in hues of brown, although there are a number of diurnal species, some of which have vivid patterns in yellow, green and black with varied reddish and blackish mottling and reticulation.

The paleae ( chaffs on the receptacles of many Asteraceae ) have orange to reddish purple ends, and are longer than the disc corollas.

The Pacific temperate rain forest subspecies suckleyis males are almost uniformly black on the upperside and have heavy black blotches on the belly, whereas those of the lightest subspecies, pallidus, have little non-dilute melanin altogether, with grey upperside and reddish underside pattern.

Adults have a reddish brown plumage and a contrasting white head and breast which makes them easy to distinguish from other birds of prey.

As its name implies, the rusty numbat was said to have a more reddish coat than the surviving subspecies.

Craig has sometimes been claimed to have been the first to age the distillation in charred oak casks, " a process that gives the bourbon its reddish color and unique taste.

But where we have both dark and light we have also the inexplicable.

Being a teacher of American literature, I remembered Whittier's `` Massachusetts To Virginia '', where he said: `` But that one dark loathsome burden ye must stagger with alone, And reap the bitter harvest which ye yourselves have sown ''.

I think, too '', he said, his dark eyes mischievous, `` that you will find there some clue to the secret of the cathedrals about which you have spoken ''.

Not seeing her dark intelligent face, one would have gauged the voice as that of a Westwood Village matron, ten years out of Iowa.

And for a man who traveled around without any change of clothing, a few more stains on his dark suit may very well have gone unnoticed.

Your first impression of this elongated square with its three elegant fountains, its two churches that almost face each other, and its russet-colored buildings, is a sense of restful spaciousness -- particularly welcome after wandering around the narrow and dark streets that you have followed since starting this walk.

Had that tall dark boy, carrying trays too heavy for him, found what he might have considered adulation of a man he probably hated more than he could bear??

His arrival must have occurred during the " dark ages " that followed the destruction of the Mycenaean civilization, and his conflict with Gaia ( Mother Earth ) was represented by the legend of his slaying her daughter the serpent Python.

* Those species which have relatively large dry seeds have a dark, crust-like ( crustose ) outer layer containing the pigment phytomelan.

Astatine may be dark, or it may have a metallic appearance and be a semiconductor, or it may even be a metal.

Although there is no cliff at the site where his body was found there is a very steep rocky embankment-which would have been fatal in the dark.

When the Falcons started playing in a dome, the team switched to their dark uniforms for home games but have worn their white uniforms at home a few times since switching to the dome.

Yet this should not minimize our sacred endeavors in this world of ours, where, like faint glimmers of light in the dark, we have emerged for a moment from the nothingness of dark unconsciousness of material existence.

Because individuals with albinism have skin that entirely lacks the dark pigment melanin, which helps protect the skin from the sun's ultraviolet radiation, their skin can burn more easily from overexposure.

Those described as having only light perception have no more sight than the ability to tell light from dark and the general direction of a light source.

Some may have a uniform slate-grey color, but others demonstrate a considerable variation of dark blues, greys and blacks, all tightly mottled .< ref name =" factsheet ">

Some cultures have discerned shapes in these patches and have given names to these " dark cloud constellations.

Nations that have an FTA with Chile appear in dark blue, those that have not ratified a negotiated FTA in light blue, and those in FTA negotiations in purple.

While he was " slender and mild-mannered ", she had dark good looks that " must have seemed to him exotic ", writes Easton.

Typically, they have smooth, dark skin, although some specimens have a red wash.