What Comes of Compromise

"The Brookfield Zoo announced this week the birth of a baby okapi — an endangered African animal that looks as if it were put together by committee."

There's been a new birth at the Brookfield Zoo, not something generally noteworthy except for two things; it's a baby okapi (possibly the coolest animal ever, after the elephant), and I wanted to quote the opening line of the article.

This thing below is an actual okapi (Omaha Zoo, not Brookfield), but the pictures do not do justice to its strangeness. Alas, my own photography has failed me, for the light was not good enough for a good picture at the time.