Caption to the picture in Nature diary, if it fits. Scanning Electron microscope (SEM) image of an ant head. -------------------------------------------------- What animal is it? (See front inside cover for photo) The animal is an okapi.The okapi (Okapia johnstoni) is a mammal of the Ituri Rainforest in central Africa. Although it bears striped markings reminiscent of the zebra, it is most closely related to the giraffe. Native just to the Ituri forests situated in the north east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, it was known only to the local people until 1901.