Although okapis have stripes like zebras, they are actually most closely related to giraffes. These large hoofed mammals were not known to science until 1901, probably because of their secretive lifestyle. Even today, the okapi largely remains a mystery to the outside world.lthough okapis have stripes like zebras, they are actually most closely related to giraffes. These large hoofed mammals were not known to science until 1901, probably because of their secretive lifestyle. Even today, the okapi largely remains a mystery to the outside world.
BABY FALCONS are called eyasses. They are covered by white down when they are born, which is replaced by feathers in three to five weeks. Although they have a high mortality rate, Peregrines have been known to live as long as 15 years.They usually begin breeding at about two years old.nglish playwrite William Shakespeare was a falconry fan who introduced falconry terms into popular speech: the word Hag or Haggard is the term for a mature wild hawk or falcon. Horus, an Egyptian god, was a Peregrine falcon: the Eye of Horus is clearly a stylized Peregrine falcon's eye.
Many people ended have up taking in abandoned or injured baby doves, as mourning dove babies are very vulnerable to attacks by predators after their parents leave the nest and also during their first two or three days on the ground. Some babies are picked up because people do not. Mourning dove eggs in nest. realize the parents are watching them. Of course they should be left alone if they have not been injured or are not in obvious danger. This page was added to the web site in the spring of 1999 when we first started receiving a large number of inquiries about mourning doves and their babies.