Noun:

Okapi,

okapi தமிழ் அர்த்தத்தின் உதாரணம்:

**** குடும்பம் Giraffidae9: ஒட்டகச்சிவிங்கி , Okapi (2 இனம் ).

okapi's Usage Examples:

As regards its general characters, the skull of the okapi appears to be intermediate between that of the giraffe on the one hand and that of the extinct Palaeotragus (or Samotherium) of the Lower Pliocene deposits of southern Europe on the other.

In common with the okapi, giraffes have skin-covered horns on the head, but in these animals, which form the genus Giraffa, these appendages are present in both sexes; and there is often an unpaired one in advance of the pair on the forehead.

The zebra, giraffe and the rare okapi are found in the north-eastern borderlands.

The long and mobile muzzle of the okapi appears to be adapted for feeding: on the low forest underwood and the swamp-vegetation.

of the Lower Pliocene of Greece, at one time regarded as antelopes,, are now known to be ancestors of the okapi.

By the Arabianized emancipated slaves of the Albert Edward district the okapi is known as the kenge, o-a-pi being the Pigmies' name for the creature.

Dr David adds that Junker may undoubtedly claim to be the discoverer of the okapi, for, as stated on p.

The group at the present day is divided into Girafjidae (giraffe and okapi), Cervidae (deer), Antilocapridae (prongbuck), and Bovidae (oxen, sheep, goats, antelopes, 'c.

Little is known with regard to the habits of the okapi.

In both genera, as in the okapi, there is a vacuity in front of the orbit.

Junker, by whom it was mistaken for a large water-chevrotain or zebra-antelope, states that to the natives of the Nepo district the okapi is known as the makape.

In general form, so far as can be judged from the disarticulated skeleton, the okapi was more like an antelope than a giraffe, the fore and hind cannon-bones, and consequently the entire limbs, being of approximately equal length.

Synonyms:

giraffe, camelopard, genus Okapia, Okapia, Okapia johnstoni, Giraffa camelopardalis,

Antonyms:

None