... "the level-headed man at home will be tempted to exclaim:
"But this is rubbish, this talk of undiscovered monsters!"
So it may seem - but upon discovery of the Congo's Okapi - scientists gasped
"This cannot be!"
They said the same of the man who first reported the giraffe and tortured him for being a romancer of the worst description - yet children feed this "monster" in London Zoo today..."
Capt. William Hichens - circa 1927