St Nicholas [serial] . THE PEARY THE OKAPI. By A. H. Knight. Every reader of St. Nicholas has doubtless and some very unpleasing in their appearance;visited zoos many times and become well but I am quite sure none of them has everacquainted with the different animals he has seen such a t^ueer-lookmg creature as the there. Some of them are very beautiful He is in fact, a newly discovered animal, and 56 not a variety of any known species, so you canwell see his importance and the interest thathis discovery has aroused—particularly in thescientific world. Animal species hav
St Nicholas [serial] . THE PEARY THE OKAPI. By A. H. Knight. Every reader of St. Nicholas has doubtless and some very unpleasing in their appearance;visited zoos many times and become well but I am quite sure none of them has everacquainted with the different animals he has seen such a t^ueer-lookmg creature as the there. Some of them are very beautiful He is in fact, a newly discovered animal, and 56 not a variety of any known species, so you canwell see his importance and the interest thathis discovery has aroused—particularly in thescientific world. Animal species have beendeveloped from a few forms, and we can findmany of the links that connect them; but hereand there are gaps, and it is often difficult tofind the links that complete the chain. Theokapi fills one of these gaps. He stands be-tween the giraffe and antelope, and partakesof the character of each. He is found in theforests of central Africa, and bears a strongresemblance to a fossil beast whose skeleton,though larger, is of about the same
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