weekly animal spotlight 1: the okapi

If you are reading this right now, you probably do not know what an okapi is or if it even exists.  It does exist and it is a animal that lives in the Congo of Africa.  Their scientific name is Okapia Johnstoni. An okapis fur is dark and it has stripes on it's legs.  They have a similar body shape to their only reletive the giraffe ( Girrafa Camiloparis) exept they do not have as long a neck as a giraffe. it has a long, flexible, blue tongue and eats leaves with it. the males have skin-covered horns called occicones on their head. They have long ears to help them detect predetors, such as the leopard ( Panthera Pardus). They are very shy and rarely seen. Occasionally they will eat charcoal. The okapi was not beleived to be real until the 20th century. the tribesman would tell stories of a kind of

Donkey that resembled a zebra. later it was confirmed to be a real species. an okapi was later shipped to the Antwerp zoo in Europe. and later another shipped to the Bronx zoo. Patrick Putnam built a research area known as Epulu, and it was used to capture okapis and send them to zoos around the world. nowadays it is the Okapi research station were they capture and study Okapis. okapis have been endangered since 2003 and are protected. Okapis are a shy and little known animal.

ethiopian wolf

the ethiopian wolf is a wolf that lives in the ethiopian highlands. it is about the same size as a coyote (or prairie wolf). it has a very long and narrow skull and red and white fur. they live in seven isolated mountain ranges at 3,000- 4,500 meters. there are an estimated 360- 440 living in the ethiopian highlands making them criticly endangered! other names for it include the abyssinian wolf, simian fox, ethiopian jackal, red jackal, abyssinian dog, and cuberow. the earliest discription of them comes from aberdeen bestiary. he wrote, ethiopia produces wolfs with manes so diversly colored, men say, that no hue is lacking. a charicteristic of  ethiopian wolfs is that they are extremely great jumpers. they never attack men however. in wenter they have a very long coat. but in summer they are hairless. the ethiopians call them theas. end qoute. they have two subspeices the northern ethiopian wolf, and the southern ethiopian wolf. suprisingly, unlike most large canids there favorite food is rats. but will also eat rock hyraxes, and occaisionally sedge leaves.

livvy is halarious

one time my little sister livvy came up to my mom and said i had a dream that daddy would not like! what? my mom asked. i had a dream abot a room full of kittens!

my famly

chase

sommer

 livvy.

mom and dad

bradon

giant's writing

I am huge. CAN you come here? I am  yummy.

my weirdest dream

So i as at the beach with my famliy.  We all had a car even my 4 year old little sister my mom decided to go out on the water.  My house was in the dream  when i was at the beach so thay  wanted my brother to babysit.  He told me to look  in his shoe.  When i lookt at his shoe there was a spider it seemd to me but it was a giant beetle!! It chast me  and I ran up a window.  I jumpt off the window and i lookt beind me.  I suddenly saw there were a lot of beetles now and thay atakkt me!   I ran in to my moms bed.   I lookt down and the beetles were there.  I closed my eyes and opend them.   I lookt down and thay werent there so i had woken up! whew!

me

i love learning about animals and facts.  I really want to take a trip to the Smithsonian. In the Smithsonian, there is a skeleton of a sea cow that I really want to see. They are like dugongs or manatees but they are from the dinosaur times.  I would love to see more fossils.  I want to see the National Zoo at the Smithsonian because some of the animals there that I want to check out and study are the red pandas, okapis, and the box jellyfish in the aquarium.  If I could go to the linkoln memorial in Washington D.C. I would look at the statue of President linkoln.

Id like to know if it is possible if you can make portals.  There are lots of things I want to know,  so i want to go on some adventures.

Another trip I would love to take is to the Indy 500 to see the car races. That would be cool.