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The Okapi and the Western World

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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The New Heledotherium

In 19 o nine, a group from the american museum of natural history and the new york zoological society started an expedition to collect specimens from the atturi forest. The following year, more samples arrived in europe from the tory forest, this time sent to brussels by a belgian officer. A zoologist named charles emanuel forsyth major travelled to Brussels to examine the skeleton and the hides. He determined that the belgian officer had actually found a different species of animal from the one that johnston's samples had been from. But as all of these samples continued to be examined and analyzed, naturalists realized they were not actually different enough to

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