This month Becky’s Squares are focusing on odd things – you can interpret this any way you want so I am going to take you all to the zoo this month. San Diego Zoo to be precise and the photos featured will be either odd looking animals, animals with odd names, odd facts or slightly odd photos. I hope you’ll enjoy my selection.
The okapi (pronounced oh-KAHP-ee) is beautiful and unusual. With its white-and-black striped hindquarters and front legs, it looks like it must be related to zebras! But take a look at an okapi’s head, and you’ll notice a resemblance to giraffes. The okapi is indeed the only living relative of the giraffe.
The okapi’s home is in the tropical rainforest in the northeast region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), in Central Africa which is the reason it is not as tall as a giraffe. Being really tall is not a good idea in a forest!
The zebra-like stripes offer great camouflage when an okapi stands in the partial sunlight that filters through its dense rainforest habitat. The stripes may also help a young okapi follow its mother through the dark forest.
We are into the last week of the ODD SQUARES month so please join in with Becky and the Square gang; the only rule is that the main photo MUST be a square – that is four equal sides! You have been warned 😉
TRAVEL WORDS 
what an interesting and beautiful animal
Yes, this is a very odd one.
Absolutely extraordinary – but very pretty, too!!
As others have said, it looks like bits of lots of animals.
It SO does … it just makes me wonder – Why?!! 🙂
Blowing kisses at us? Odd but cute.
Haha 😂
What an expression! 🙂 It has beautiful colors but a rather odd shape.
Odd in many respects
we all have that odd relative!
Haha 😂