Okapi showing zebra-striped hindquarters

Mammalia · Artiodactyla

Okapi

Okapia johnstoni

The only living relative of the giraffe, adapted to solitary life in dense, impenetrable tropical lowland rainforests.

Realm
Terrestrial
Conservation status
ENEndangered
Data provenance

This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.

Method and version
Evidence snapshot

A sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 16 licence-filtered records across 8 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.

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Retained datasets (6)