Sentences with phrase «of okapis»

The mothers of Okapi players sit and stand next to me in colorful pagnes, smiling.

Okanda was discovered by a member of the Okapi community who saw him playing at a reception center as his family was waiting to be settled by the UNHCR.

With six minutes left and Okapi winning 1 - 0, Naath were on the attack when the referee whistled a foul outside of Okapi's penalty area.

But while such connections remain uncertain, Lindqvist's work — like the discovery of the okapi — is direct: «Clearly, a big part of the Yeti legend has to do with bears,» she says.

The creators of Okapi collection are deeply devoted to their material, whether it is glass, ceramic, leather, photo or graphics.

In the early morning of June 24th, a marauding group of poachers — headed by notorious Paul Sadala, a.k.a. «Morgan» — raided the headquarters of the Okapi Wildlife Reserve in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

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Not exact matches

The start of the second half is delayed while the referees, civilian security, and LWF try to calm the crowd, which began pelting Okapi's goalkeeper with rocks.

Just before kickoff of the Kakuma Premier League season opener between Naath FC, left, and Okapi FC, right (in playing kits).

Though Okapi went 2 - 0 against Naath last season (after LWF rectified the referee's mistake), he insists that his team should have won the inaugural season of the KPL and its prize of 50,000 Kenyan shillings.

Okapi and Atletico are based in the southern part of Kakuma 1 — Zone 1, Block 13 — otherwise known as New Canada.

A slide tackle deep in Okapi's territory sends the ball stumbling free in front of the net, but no one can touch it in.

He grabs an Okapi flag, with the head of a deer / zebra / giraffe - like animal depicted on it, then gets the trophy he won for being the league's top scorer last season.

Then, they added a scaled - up version of the bones from a modern - day giraffe's torso and pelvis (gray); as it turns out, all known extinct relatives of today's giraffids (giraffes and okapi) have similarly shaped bodies.

Giraffes need to recognize and mate with others of their own kind — and not, say, with antelopes or okapi.

The giraffids, a family of ruminants that includes modern day giraffes and okapis, are thought to have existed as far back as the early Miocene epoch.

She notes that in Africa, the longstanding Western legend of an «African unicorn» was explained in the early 20th century by British researchers, who found and described the flesh - and - blood okapi, a giraffe relative that looks like a mix between that animal and a zebra and a horse.

The specimens come from a variety of animal species, including okapi, platypus, and sloth, and are embedded in paraffine wax as soon as they arrive to the lab, where scientists study them to help vets diagnose and treat eye diseases.

To identify genetic changes likely to be responsible for the giraffe's unique characteristics, including sprints that can reach 37 miles per hour (60 km / h), Cavener and Agaba compared the gene - coding sequences of the giraffe and the okapi to more than forty other mammals including the cow, sheep, goat, camel, and human.

For these two reasons, Okapi's genome sequence provides a powerful screen that we have used to identify some of the giraffe's unique genetic changes.»

Agaba first noticed a group of genes regulating metabolism and growth that were diverged in giraffe as compared to okapi.

For the first time, the genomes of the giraffe and its closest living relative, the reclusive okapi of the African rainforest, have been sequenced — revealing the first clues about the genetic changes that led to the evolution of the giraffe's exceptionally long neck and its record - holding ranking as the world's tallest land species.

The discovery has significant conservation implications, the researchers say, noting that the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) Species Survival Commission Giraffe and Okapi Specialist Group recently submitted an updated proposed assessment of the giraffe on the IUCN Red List taking into consideration their rapid decline over the last 30 years.

Using a battery of comparative tests to study the genome sequences of the giraffe and the okapi, the scientists discovered 70 genes that showed multiple signs of adaptations.

Applying these strictures to modern animals is fairly straightforward, since these two characteristics are restricted only to members of the clade Ruminantia, which is the subgroup of even - toed hoofed mammals that includes the cattle, goats, sheep, antelopes, deer, pronghorn, mouse deer, giraffe (Zivotofsky 2000) and okapi (a clade is a taxonomic group whose members share a common ancestry; in this case it does not have a formal associated Linnaean level, such as family or order).

Mindy presented her paper, entitled «The Effect of Enrichment Devices on Stereotypic Behavior in Okapi (Okapia johnstoni)» in August, 1999, in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Not much information is known about World of Demons, but by the looks of it, it seems like a cross between Okapi and Infinity Blade.

In Everything, you begin as an animal and become both vastly bigger and smaller while talking to anything from an okapi, a strand of hair, or even entire galaxies.

2005 Goldman Prize recipient Corneille Ewango displayed immense courage when he refused to flee the Okapi Reserve in the Ituri forest at the start of DRC's civil war.

Patrols at the Okapi Wildlife Reserve in the Democratic Republic of Congo text their GPS locations to a central operator so that if any threats to the reserve arise, they can be mobilized in the quickest and most efficient way to stop the problem.

Though some feared the Rwandan genocide and decade - long civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo had driven it to extinction, the rare Okapi still stalks World Heritage site Virunga National Park, according to the first ever photos of the animal in the wild, released yesterday.

According to the Zoological Society of London, which launched the okapi finding mission, okapi meat, reportedly from the Park, is now regularly on sale in the nearby town of Beni.

For now, the bigger danger to okapi is its poaching, and the militia violence that's fueled by the deaths of other marketable animals.

The Okapi Wildlife Reserve patrols in the Democratic Republic of Congo use SMS to text the GPS their locations to a central operator, who is then able to mobilize them if there is an emergency threat to the reserve.