Mk just sent me this wonderful heartwarming news article about my favorite secretive forest-dwelling animal;
AP
Brookfield Zoo announces birth of okapi
Photo credit: (AP Photo) "This photo released by the Brookfield Zoo shows a baby female okapi, an endangered African animal, with it's mother, Semliki, on Oct. 19, 2006, at the zoo in Brookfield, Ill. Brookfield announced this week the Sept. 27 birth of Sauda, which means 'dark beauty' in Swahili. She has since birth tripled in size, now about 157 pounds and 3 feet tall, and could grow to 500 pounds and 5 feet tall. (AP Photo/Brookfield Zoo, Jim Schulz)"
Awww shit. it's a baby Okapi!
In other news this week has been trying to break me, and I will not be broken. To that effect I am going to sing Karaoke tonight wth dozens of my cohort.
