Species: Okapi

Integrating natural history, the unique individuals, and exhibit design allows us to create a list of desired behaviors:

• Foraging
• Self maintenance – Grooming
• Social grooming
• Rubbing on objects
• Diurnal, with some additional activity during the first hours of darkness
• Primary sensory modalities: Sound and smell
• Scent marking: urinating, defecating, tarry dermal exudates
• Walking/running
• Hiding in foliage
• Feed solely on leaves and opportunistically on fruit/other items
• Rest on beds of leaf litter

These behaviors may be encouraged through permanent exhibit structures, rotating items, social opportunities, interactions with keepers and more.

Sampling of enrichment ideas