Food
Okapi are herbivores, meaning they only eat plants. Okapi eat almost everything the rain forest can supply. Part of the okapia johnstoni diet is mainly leaves, shoots, and twigs. Sometimes okapi choose to eat fungi. However, okapi do enjoy fruits and berries; probably because of their sweet or sour taste. The amazing thing is is most of the plants they eat, are poisonous to other animals including humans.
In order to get different minerals and salts, okapi are caught eating reddish clay. This provides them with a complete set of essential minerals based on their plant-eating diet.
Of course young animals and humans first start out drinking milk, produced by their mother. This lasts for about a year for the okapi. After that, the young okapi watches what his mother eats and does the same.
Habitat
Okapi are herbivores, meaning they only eat plants. Okapi eat almost everything the rain forest can supply. Part of the okapia johnstoni diet is mainly leaves, shoots, and twigs. Sometimes okapi choose to eat fungi. However, okapi do enjoy fruits and berries; probably because of their sweet or sour taste. The amazing thing is is most of the plants they eat, are poisonous to other animals including humans.
In order to get different minerals and salts, okapi are caught eating reddish clay. This provides them with a complete set of essential minerals based on their plant-eating diet.
Of course young animals and humans first start out drinking milk, produced by their mother. This lasts for about a year for the okapi. After that, the young okapi watches what his mother eats and does the same.
Habitat