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The article reports on the first baby okapi at Vincennes Zoo in Paris, France to live three weeks. It states that a rare infant okapi from the rainforest of Belgian Congo was able to live three weeks which is the first to survive longer than other of its kind without untoward incident. It also mentions that Assistant Paul Vullier has explained that female okapis experiences deviation of maternal instinct wherein they often starve their infants or stomp them to death.