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 😉
These I have seen in a zoo, probably Melbourne Zoo I think. They look like they’ve been made from all the left overs. 🙂
They do,, don’t they! Most odd.
These and giraffes are my favourites. And I don’t mind the odd lynx.
No lynxes.
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I agree with the eternal traveller: a fine way to assemble a few leftover bits from other animals.
I agree.
What a face in the first photo. I am loving your square odds at the zoo Jude 🙂
Thanks Brian, glad you are liking the visit.
hen I was a child, I had a Britain’s Toy Zoo. My most unusual animal figure was an Okapi, and I gave it its own ‘enclosure’. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete. x
Oh, that must have been fun to have. I only had farm animals.
I had the Britain’s farm too, with a tractor and trailer. 🙂
*When* (Getting a new keyboard for my birthday!)
What a striking beast
Most unusual.
Indeed!
Wouldn’t you like to get a kiss from that!?
Er… no 🤭
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LOL, eklastic made me laugh there! Definitely feels as if it’s saying hello, but that would be quite enough!
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What a great animal. I’ve never seen one before although I have read about them.
They are certainly odd!
A very unusual animal!
Indeed!