The reason Okapi and other mammals eat their placentas after birth is to avoid attracting predators. The smell of the bodily fluids that come with it are magnets for predators so by consuming the placenta, they avoid detection. Cats do it too
0:10 Hm. Looks like a kid was asked to draw a zebra without seeing one before. 0:17 "As you might have guessed from its appearance..." Nope, didn't see that'n coming. Slain within the first 30 seconds. Send help.
The okapi has a pretty mythical look but the tapir is pretty interesting too, I've had the chance to scratch the back of one when I've volunteered at a zoo, they love it. Maybe you can check them out sometimes.
I first learned about this animal in sixth grade and it became my favorite animal for a year. My family's wildlife books are all pretty old, like from the 60's and 70's, so the okapi was a lesser known and mysterious beast back then, and that's what I loved about it. Kids today are so lucky. They have so much up-to-date knowledge at their fingertips.
Sad to hear such high price has been paid in our efforts to preserve such a beautiful and reclusive animal. Great to learn a bit more about the Animalogic team! You put out some of my favorite videos on this platform.
I know a guy who had his first kiss forced to him by an okapi. He passed out and almost suffocated and started having hallucinations about living in a world full of sand. Stay away from okapis.
"Now you have a fun fact you can use to create a nice awkward silence at your next party!" I know you're probably joking but that's actually what I watch your videos for.
Yeah, I saw that exact thing with my own eyes a few years ago when I was visiting my cousins' dairy farm one midsummer morning after one of the cows had given birth.
Beautiful animal & i can say they DEFINITELY emphasized how unique their tongues r from how much the titan version violated tf outta poor Armin in the AoT finale earlier this week👅🤣
I remember seeing this animal for the first time at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago. It was and still is one of my favorite animals thank to its uniqueness.
@MTrefiner The thing is, you can clearly hear a 15 hHz sound in that clip. I'm really confused because it sounds like she meant 15 Hz but the sound corresponds with what she said
@MTrefiner You are probably 30 or older. A lot of older people can't hear these sounds. It's just like old TVs: my parents/grandparents don't hear the loud earraping hissing noise emitted by those things. At 1:57 there is a very high-pitched sound, so she definitely meant 15 kHz. So the misspeak is the infra/ultrasound part.
OMG DANIELLE HAS SNAPPED SHE HAS GLOWN UP SO MUCH IM SO PROUD OF HER LISTEN GIRL NO MATTER WHAT THE HATERS TELL YOU YOU ARE AWESOME AND ARE GOING TO GO FAR IN LIFE IM THRIVING FOR YOU
Ah, so that's a okapi, no wonder why Mikasa didn't know wtf is that, they don't have those in Paradis... ... And i see you, r34 artist that came here for reference. Don't (please)
I am a Nature/Wild Life enthusiast.. The detailed info you give out on wild life is simply amazing.. keep up the great work, I love all your episodes especially on mammals..
I love okapis for their charming stripes and coloration and their artful form. I also tend to love animals that are lesser known, as long I like their looks, rather then liking animals that everybody likes, horses, cats, bleh bleh bleh. So with the okapi I got better then I could ask, a lesser known animal that also happens to have the most aesthetic form and coloration that I could imagine. That's why I hate us humans, for what we do to them.
you guys are great :) ive been an animal lover ever since and your channel is like a newly discovered treasure as a fun, easy source of new zoology brain snacks. great stuff!
The consumption of the placenta by an herbivore mother isn't unique to the Okapi. As I understand it, it's an evolutionary adaptation to protect newly born young from predators.
Martial Kintu let's clarify something. Whenever you see someone start a sentence with "as I understand it" the speaker/writer is indicating that they may not have all the information on the subject at time of writing, and are recognizing amd willing tp accept that they may ultimately be proven wrong about the subject at any time. That said, what research have you done on the matter of why herbivores eat the after birth of there newborns?
Martial Kintu read through the whole of the comment before responding, and remember that hypothesis is the precursor to truth. We don't learn unless we put the idea out there.
Shill for Science You're very cute with your generalisations there... but it would have been cleverer not to make that kind of point on a video about okapi. Okapi were actually cryptids for a number of years, because many scientists would not believe travellers' & natives' stories about them, while fringe elements took them more seriously. Some cryptids are plain & obvious BS, but others have been subsequently proven to exist to the satisfaction of scientific authorities. Of course, the usual tactic is to shift the goal posts and to claim that the okapi etc were never cryptids in the first place, but that's a form of intellectual dishonesty. So, no, not all cryptids turn out to be imaginary. Some end up being recognised, or even identified as something else (there is a strong case for saying yeti are a type of bear for example, or that sea serpent sightings originate from the likes of oar fish etc.) Other examples include the giant squid, coelacanth, mountain gorilla, the Hoan Kiem Turtle and the platypus (which British initially thought was a hoax when first brought back from Australia as a stuffed specimen.)
Shill for Science You obviously have come across little cryptozoology other than bad documentaries on commercial stations. One could say the same about many so called science documentaries on such channels which make science look a hell of a lot more fun and less tedious than it often is (not to mention less time consuming). Cryptozoology is the search for "hidden animals". The starting point of this can be folklore/reports, or apparent physical evidence. If the cryptid turns out to be a known animal, then that does not invalidate the search for it. In some cases, they can be proven to be rare colour variants, giants/dwarves and so on. In some cases, they may prove to be animals long thought to be extinct like the peccary. In other cases, discovery of remains of Homo Floriensis or Gigantopithecus raises the question of whether such beings lived recently enough to enter ancient human mythology. Some have suggested that some yeti stories also represent sightings of the orang utan or a close relative in the past or recent times, which would be interesting as it has been assumed that their former/present range was/is much smaller. There is an old sceptical cliché that "the plural of anecdote is not data". In actual fact, ornithologists in the UK, regularly use bird surveys and reports from the public to try and keep track of rare species. The RSPB runs such a survey every year. The Hoan Kiem turtle was very much a cryptid for years. It was rarely seen, and unconfirmed and known mainly from anecdotes and legend. It also lived bang in the middle of a built up area making its existence less likely. For a number of years, its best evidence was some dodgy amateur footage.
Point of information: if the call is infrasonic, it will not be 15 Kilohertz. That's a high frequency (by human hearing range, anyway). I think you meant to say 15 HZ, which is indeed a low frequency, somewhat below the human hearing range.
European Empire, you think the EU is communist, AND you think evolution is fake? DAMN DUDE, I think you might have a dog turd in your skull, not a brain... 🤨
I was in touch with scientists working at that reserve before and after the attack. What happened was a real atrocity, much worse than described here. I wish them all the best of luck!!!
1:52 Is their call lower The okapi, a rainforest giraffid, produces infrasonic calls at around 14Hz that are likely used to maintain mother/infant contact (Lindsey et al., 1999)
I love the okapi, they breed them in the Antwerp Zoo (nearest zoo to me) so I've seen them irl before. Edit: I looked it up and they were the first zoo in the world to have okapis (since 1919) and they own the studbook and coordinate the breeding program so that they don't have to take okapis from the wild anymore.
The reason Okapi and other mammals eat their placentas after birth is to avoid attracting predators. The smell of the bodily fluids that come with it are magnets for predators so by consuming the placenta, they avoid detection.
Cats do it too
they also have protein though
Euw.
Oh, me too.
They put a lot of energy and nutrients into the placenta, it's efficient to regain some of that back.
I did too
If Girafarig had gotten an Regional Forme, I’d imagine it’d end up looking like an Okapi.
Laserbeak316 personally I’d practically die for that
Sun Moon Alolan Girafarig DLC when
Laserbeak316 wait for the African region for that masterpiece
Wow. Yes, I agree.
Or if they ever make a game based on Africa but I can see the difficulty in that
Poachers are some of the scummiest people on earth
theres a connection between poachers and poverty, same with drugs
Yes, thanks to the chinese.
Melissa Jansen Damn right. They don't care about the circle of life, all they care about is making a quick buck.
Even worse are those who buy from them.
Who poaches the poachers?
Give armin back okapi ~ Mikasa Ackerman
The okapi looks like a long lost relative to a zebra, a horse, and a giraffe.
it's like a short giraffe with zebra stripe yoga pants
Omg it does
Hi. Are you the Gangnam style man?
Probably geneticly made
So get this. A Zebra, horse, and a giraffe walk into a bar...
0:10 Hm. Looks like a kid was asked to draw a zebra without seeing one before.
0:17 "As you might have guessed from its appearance..." Nope, didn't see that'n coming. Slain within the first 30 seconds. Send help.
Could you by any chance do the coconut crab?
Yes!! So cool.
@@animalogic how about mudskippers? (But if youre doing coconut crabs focus on that, that's awesome)
I just imagine Danielle squatted down shuffeling and pinching the air.. It's a dance right?
@@JavierFernandez01 im sure she did too
YEEEEEEEEEEESS
Who knew a famous anime taught us two animals we haven't heard before. lol
As someone with Congolese origins, I taught AoT what an okapi was
Okapis and Hallucigenia
Let's just be thankful that the okapi brought Armin and Zeke together in P A T H S.
We found each other in this video
*PATHS*
U posting this in all Okapi videos?
and mikasa cut the mouth open and armin got out
I have not expecting this
@@erob9446 yes
The okapi has a pretty mythical look but the tapir is pretty interesting too, I've had the chance to scratch the back of one when I've volunteered at a zoo, they love it. Maybe you can check them out sometimes.
I've only recently learned of these creature's existence and I already know your illustration of them will be godly.
It took away Armin's first kiss
Deepthroat*
I just came here to check what this animal look like after new AOT chapter
I first learned about this animal in sixth grade and it became my favorite animal for a year. My family's wildlife books are all pretty old, like from the 60's and 70's, so the okapi was a lesser known and mysterious beast back then, and that's what I loved about it. Kids today are so lucky. They have so much up-to-date knowledge at their fingertips.
This is _definitely_ my favorite animal~ Okapi~
Yeeeeessss!
Coffee volcano Same
@Bretny Yalda Almost everything is
One of the most enigmatic animals in the wild. And it's that ability ta blend with the environment than help him survive for so long.
Bretny Yalda No if we the watchers and the proper authorities do something about it.
Sad to hear such high price has been paid in our efforts to preserve such a beautiful and reclusive animal. Great to learn a bit more about the Animalogic team! You put out some of my favorite videos on this platform.
I know a guy who had his first kiss forced to him by an okapi. He passed out and almost suffocated and started having hallucinations about living in a world full of sand. Stay away from okapis.
I see what you did there
Armin, am I right?
P.A.T.H.S bringing all AOT fans together.
@@np_2112 so we're eldians after all
Well played lol
Give back Armin
"Now you have a fun fact you can use to create a nice awkward silence at your next party!"
I know you're probably joking but that's actually what I watch your videos for.
I have just beem watching these videos for a decent follow up to the wombats and their cubic poop thing.
so it was a real animal from attack on titan
They also call this the unicorn of Africa
But it has two horns. That would make it a bicorn.
@@TaiFerret the nickname comes from back when europeans thought it was a local myth
fake news🤯
That comes from the fact that males have horns. Females, on the other hand, do not possess horns.
This is quality content . Thank you Danielle and your team. I remember seeing an okapi for the first time at the Maryland zoo in Baltimore!
It's an absolute miracle they're not extinct. Am very sorry to hear about the massacre in that shelter. Bless them souls
Binturongs!!!! They smell like popcorn, but my son and I want you to teach us more about them.
They smell like popcorn. What more is there to know?
ARE YOU FEELING IT NOW? MR EREN'S FREIND!
“HELLO ERENS FRIEND” “HELLO MR ZEKE”
WTF IS AN OKAPI🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯🤯🤯⁉️⁉️🥶
Maaaannnnn thats a damn Girafarig. C'mon guys!
Steven Bahena lol
lol I didn't think of that
I didnt see anybody make a reference lol so i had to do it 😂😂
Omg. Lollll
Steven Bahena I wonder if girafarig is based off the okapi
Give me Armin back Okapi
Can you stop with this nonsense now
No! It took Armin @@erenyeager7705
@@erenyeager7705 whos admin i dont get it
@@alexlixuanshen151 A Character reference from a Anime show called Attack on Titan
Placenta consumption is very common. Even cows do this.
Primal Survival even my dog does it
Yeah, I saw that exact thing with my own eyes a few years ago when I was visiting my cousins' dairy farm one midsummer morning after one of the cows had given birth.
@@littlereuby Some people still do it.
You are such a great artists. One of the many things I love about this channel.
Animalogic, I love every episode!
Definitely one of my favorite youtube channels!! Thanks guys for sharing all this with us!! Awesome job!!
Beautiful animal & i can say they DEFINITELY emphasized how unique their tongues r from how much the titan version violated tf outta poor Armin in the AoT finale earlier this week👅🤣
GIVE ARMIN BACK
Here after the newest AOT chapter
Thank you so much for showing this animal! The okapi is such an interesting creature!
2:15
Armin noooooo
I remember seeing this animal for the first time at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago. It was and still is one of my favorite animals thank to its uniqueness.
1:51 wait, is 15kHz infrasonic in Canada?
fortunately, mistakes on this channel generally are at an actual low frequency...
Lol I also noticed the mistake. I guess they meant 15hz
Also, is the 15 kHz sound in the video added in or is it from the okapi video?
@MTrefiner The thing is, you can clearly hear a 15 hHz sound in that clip. I'm really confused because it sounds like she meant 15 Hz but the sound corresponds with what she said
@MTrefiner You are probably 30 or older. A lot of older people can't hear these sounds. It's just like old TVs: my parents/grandparents don't hear the loud earraping hissing noise emitted by those things. At 1:57 there is a very high-pitched sound, so she definitely meant 15 kHz. So the misspeak is the infra/ultrasound part.
Yeah, I did some of my own Okapi research, and they produce a call that is at a frequency of 15-25hz not kHz, must’ve been a simple mistake lol
Okapi: "you ARe MINe"
Never heard of this animal before, came here because of AOT
"What the hell's an okapi?!" - Mikasa Ackerman
I would suggest doing a video on Humans. Love your work please don't disappear.
Cheers
I used to read Okapi magazine in France as a kid. What a wonderful species.
“Maybe I can be your onii san for tonight, okapi-kun.”
- CHADmin CHADlert, probably.
CHADMIN WKWKWOEKRKEJR
he is a chad
okapi give back arminnnn
I freaking love Okapis!
OMG DANIELLE HAS SNAPPED SHE HAS GLOWN UP SO MUCH IM SO PROUD OF HER LISTEN GIRL NO MATTER WHAT THE HATERS TELL YOU YOU ARE AWESOME AND ARE GOING TO GO FAR IN LIFE IM THRIVING FOR YOU
Ah, so that's a okapi, no wonder why Mikasa didn't know wtf is that, they don't have those in Paradis...
...
And i see you, r34 artist that came here for reference. Don't (please)
😈
I am a Nature/Wild Life enthusiast.. The detailed info you give out on wild life is simply amazing.. keep up the great work, I love all your episodes especially on mammals..
yo let armin go bro
YES I've been waiting for you to do a video on okapis for so long!! They're my favorite animals :D
I love okapis for their charming stripes and coloration and their artful form. I also tend to love animals that are lesser known, as long I like their looks, rather then liking animals that everybody likes, horses, cats, bleh bleh bleh. So with the okapi I got better then I could ask, a lesser known animal that also happens to have the most aesthetic form and coloration that I could imagine.
That's why I hate us humans, for what we do to them.
Zebra and Giraffe are in a relationship
What comes next:
Okapi
Danielle looks like she’s a pretty nice person in real life
you guys are great :) ive been an animal lover ever since and your channel is like a newly discovered treasure as a fun, easy source of new zoology brain snacks. great stuff!
May you please do Great Jagras next?
What's a "jaggra"?
It's from a video game
It's *Jagras, you wannabe fan.
Isn't that the giant Iguana with dreadlocks?
Lmao this.
u forgot mention the artist who makes the art work of each animal species... he is doing amazing work
The consumption of the placenta by an herbivore mother isn't unique to the Okapi. As I understand it, it's an evolutionary adaptation to protect newly born young from predators.
Martial Kintu let's clarify something. Whenever you see someone start a sentence with "as I understand it" the speaker/writer is indicating that they may not have all the information on the subject at time of writing, and are recognizing amd willing tp accept that they may ultimately be proven wrong about the subject at any time.
That said, what research have you done on the matter of why herbivores eat the after birth of there newborns?
Martial Kintu it wouldn't for you look it up. You'd be surprised what you'd find. So, what originally prompted your response?
Martial Kintu read through the whole of the comment before responding, and remember that hypothesis is the precursor to truth. We don't learn unless we put the idea out there.
What was the comment you replied to? It seems like their comment was deleted
Yeah, dogs also eat their puppy’s placenta when they give birth. I’m sure lots of other animals do it too
I can literally watch and listen to Danielle speaking, for hours straight 😍
bRuH
Next you should do cryptid animals. But for regular animals, you should do the warthog.
Shill for Science It’s hard to do that on an extinct creature yet she did the Dire Wolf and T.rex
Shill for Science You're very cute with your generalisations there... but it would have been cleverer not to make that kind of point on a video about okapi. Okapi were actually cryptids for a number of years, because many scientists would not believe travellers' & natives' stories about them, while fringe elements took them more seriously.
Some cryptids are plain & obvious BS, but others have been subsequently proven to exist to the satisfaction of scientific authorities. Of course, the usual tactic is to shift the goal posts and to claim that the okapi etc were never cryptids in the first place, but that's a form of intellectual dishonesty.
So, no, not all cryptids turn out to be imaginary. Some end up being recognised, or even identified as something else (there is a strong case for saying yeti are a type of bear for example, or that sea serpent sightings originate from the likes of oar fish etc.) Other examples include the giant squid, coelacanth, mountain gorilla, the Hoan Kiem Turtle and the platypus (which British initially thought was a hoax when first brought back from Australia as a stuffed specimen.)
Shill for Science You obviously have come across little cryptozoology other than bad documentaries on commercial stations. One could say the same about many so called science documentaries on such channels which make science look a hell of a lot more fun and less tedious than it often is (not to mention less time consuming).
Cryptozoology is the search for "hidden animals". The starting point of this can be folklore/reports, or apparent physical evidence.
If the cryptid turns out to be a known animal, then that does not invalidate the search for it. In some cases, they can be proven to be rare colour variants, giants/dwarves and so on. In some cases, they may prove to be animals long thought to be extinct like the peccary. In other cases, discovery of remains of Homo Floriensis or Gigantopithecus raises the question of whether such beings lived recently enough to enter ancient human mythology. Some have suggested that some yeti stories also represent sightings of the orang utan or a close relative in the past or recent times, which would be interesting as it has been assumed that their former/present range was/is much smaller.
There is an old sceptical cliché that "the plural of anecdote is not data". In actual fact, ornithologists in the UK, regularly use bird surveys and reports from the public to try and keep track of rare species. The RSPB runs such a survey every year.
The Hoan Kiem turtle was very much a cryptid for years. It was rarely seen, and unconfirmed and known mainly from anecdotes and legend. It also lived bang in the middle of a built up area making its existence less likely. For a number of years, its best evidence was some dodgy amateur footage.
Brrrrrtttttt
Point of information: if the call is infrasonic, it will not be 15 Kilohertz. That's a high frequency (by human hearing range, anyway). I think you meant to say 15 HZ, which is indeed a low frequency, somewhat below the human hearing range.
okapi titan
I love these animals so much. Your art is gorgeous Danielle!
i bet it have a titan in it's mouth
Thank you so much - this is my favorite animal of all time and no one ever knows what I'm talking about. They are truly magical forest creatures.
Great video. 15 KHz is not infrasound though, maybe you meant 15 Hz?
One of your best, Danielle. Excellent vid. Thank you.
Great work as usual Animalogic team 💕💖💕💖
Awesome thanks to all of you!!
COELACANTH!!! been asking this for 6 months now..
You could wait 350 million years more, they shouldn't change much until then.
Han Onyme yeah if u want dead ones we are killing them with plastic RIP
@@europeansovietunion7372 i know this is old but thats not how it works
European Empire, you think the EU is communist, AND you think evolution is fake? DAMN DUDE, I think you might have a dog turd in your skull, not a brain... 🤨
The moment I saw the thumbnail and realize I haven't heard of this creature already made me blame the poachers
把阿爾敏還來！
I was in touch with scientists working at that reserve before and after the attack. What happened was a real atrocity, much worse than described here. I wish them all the best of luck!!!
Happy World Okapi Day!!!
This is one of my favorite animals glad you made a video about this facinating animal
Yes congo!! Been waiting for this episode for a while
I love Okapis. They have a great Okapi exhibit if you have never seen one at the Dallas Zoo.
Bring Back Armin😫
YO, I REQUESTED THIS!
THANKS, ANIMALOGIC! ILY!
Heather Chandler ain't u dead?
Armin
Glad ur getting sponsored, i love this channel
ARMINNN
Always enjoy your videos & great information on all the Beautiful animals.
Thank you.
Ive legit tought that this was a cryptid for my entire life holy shit
These are and have been my favorite animal for years so happy
把阿爾敏吐出來
I love every video y’all have and watch them as soon as they come out
*OKAMI SEQUEL CONFIRMED*
The sun rises plays in the background, in African style
"Okapi also have a fantastic sense of..." - I thought she was going to say humor 😂
Attack on Titan anyone ?
I remember first seeing an Okapi in the Rotterdam zoo. I was still young and I was so fascinated!
“It a damn deerbra “😂
Lmfao comment of the year why aint this got more likes its a deerbra
1:52 Is their call lower
The okapi, a rainforest giraffid, produces infrasonic calls at around 14Hz that are likely used to maintain mother/infant contact (Lindsey et al., 1999)
What about the prehistoric shoebill bird that lives in my country Sudan it's a living fossil!
i would think a Tigerfish is more of a living fossil, and a living horror
Ungandan knuckles
Ungandan was on purpose
Animalogic deservers to be noticed more
That's so depressing about the retaliation from the poachers.
I love the okapi, they breed them in the Antwerp Zoo (nearest zoo to me) so I've seen them irl before.
Edit: I looked it up and they were the first zoo in the world to have okapis (since 1919) and they own the studbook and coordinate the breeding program so that they don't have to take okapis from the wild anymore.
@1:56 15Khz is actually a high frequency sound or do you mean 15 hz which is low frequency☺
Love you! Thanks for the amazing works... Great team!