On Februari 26th Batouri gave birth to a female calf. Father is Steve. The calf weighed 21,5kg at birth.

www.zoo-berlin.de/zoo/tiere-wissenswertes/tier-news/news/article/nachwuchs-bei-den-waldgiraffen-im-berliner-zoo.html (German text)

At Bioparc at Doué la Fontaine (France) a new okapi facility is being build. It should be ready this summer.

At Wroclaw (Poland) a new facility is being built to expand institutes that hold okapi.

The building will be 325 sq. m. and hold seven stables. A winter run will be built covering 300 sq. m. this to provide space during the cold season.

To outside paddocks will be constructed a larger covering 1800 sq. m. and a smaller covering 1200 sq. m.

On February 5th okapi Zukama moved to Beekse Bergen (Netherlands).

Zukama is the first okapi at Beekse Bergen.

The building contains 6 stables of 30m2, but also a group stable of 120m2 and 3 outside enclosures of 2200, 1500 and 600 square metres.

He'll be joined by Rap. Both animals come from Wuppertal.

Picture by Matthias Van Minnebruggen

At Wilhelma Zoo okapi kalf Nyota was hand reared after her mother Kabinda died 16 days after her birth.

Nyota is doing well now. Weighing 108,4 kg.

The zoo issued a German press release