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b. How does your LT meet its needs for air, water, shelter and food?
For example... **__OKAPI CHARACTERISTICS__ The okapi is a living thing because it can respond,grow and develop, it's made of one or more cells and it can reproduce.

//Respond//- The Okapi calf poops only after 4 - 8 weeks of age. This allows the calf to stay hidden and not be sniffed-out by predators. (The Okapi mother hides its calf before it goes out to search for food); The okapi's predator is the leopard whenever a okapi calf sees one, they crouch down and lie still, its colours make it invisible to the leopard.**


 * //Grow and Develop//- An Okapi has the same appearance as an adult, but they have a short fringe of hair along their spines, the line will be gone** **by the time they are 12 to 14 months old.**


 * //One or More Cells//- the okapi has many different cells. Blood cells, hair cells,skin cells etc...

//Reproduce//-The Okapi gives a live birth, it has a mating seasons (August - Late October) but if it chooses to it can mate when ever it wants. The fem** ale Okapi gives a live birth to an okapi calf who usually weighs around 36 pounds.

__OKAPI MEETING ITS BASIC NEED__ //Meeting the need for water//- To get its water the okapi finds a stream or a lake.

//Meeting the need for air-// air is all around the forests the okapi lives in. All the okapi has to do is breath to meet the need for air.

//Meeting the need for food//- the okapi meets its need for food by searching the forest to find shrubs, grass, leaves, clay, and sometimes, if it can get its hooves on it, charcoal of a tree. ( the inside of a thunder-struck tree) But its favorite treat is onions.

//Meeting the need for Habitat-// the okapi lives in the dense part of a rain forest in central Africa.

**b. What are the features of your LT that cause it to be classified in the way that it is?**
For example... **__Kingdom: Animalia__ Living things in Kingdom Animalia are multicellular, eat other living things and plants and have some sort of a well fixed structure**

The Okapi has a vertabrate. (a backbone)**
 * __Phylum: Chordata__

The okapi is a warm-blooded animal, it has fur/hair, and it's females feeds its young milk from it's body. And believe it or not Mamals have a special ear bone that only mamals have.**
 * __Class: Mammalia:__

__**Order: Artiodactyla**__

The okapi is in the Giraffidae family with the Giraffe but nothing else is with it in this family.**
 * __Family: Giraffidae__

This information is on wikipedia for most living things....

**Task 3. a. What are the special features of your animal? b. How have these adaptations helped your animal to survive?**

For example, the okapi has brown fur, strange stripes, white legs, big ears.... How do these things help it to survive?