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Okapis are found only in the tropical forests of northeastern Zaire. They prefer altitudes between 500 and 1,000 m, although they may venture above 1,000 m in the eastern montane rainforests. One sighting occurred at 1,450 m on Mt. Hoyo, in the upper Ituri.
The okapi also has a long, dark, prehensile tongue, just like a giraffeâs, to help it strip the buds and young leaves from the understory brush of its rain forest home. Okapis are hard to find in the wild. Their natural habitat is the Ituri Forest, a dense rain forest in central Africa.