These things are beautiful!

All about them on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okapi





What animals do you find yourself admiring? Why?

thank god I'm leaving this office soon.

never heard of them before

Dewrede said:

There are are a few of them on display here at Disney's animal kingdom.
They're gorgeous!

I'm a big fan of the giraffe.


And I still want a pet platypus.

CarrieMpls said:

I'm glad I get to leave the office soon.

AsianBomb777 said:

MartyMcFly said:

MartyMcFly said:

What happens in that scene? what's that from.


It's kind of hot.

Is that a real animal?????

Well it's not exactly an Okapi, but there is some ressamblance me thinks . My boyfriend took this picture, after I pointed on that animal while we were visting the Cape Peninsula, South Africa:

Serious said:

He looks like he's about to charge.

AsianBomb777 said:

Does he?

AsianBomb777 said:

The Okapi you posted AsianBomb777 looks different than what Serious has posted. The Okapi has some zebra-like stripes.

OMG, they are lovely.

I don't think I could eat a whole one...

looks pretty, though.

AsianBomb777 said:

i saw a few clips from the wikipedia page
they're nice

gyro34 said:

I was saying that it wasn't exactly an okapi, but it just looks a bit like one. I think mine is called a bontebok in afrikaans and I have no idea what the english name for it is .

The Amur Tiger is critically endangered. In the early 1900s, it lived throughout the Korean Peninsula, northeastern Mongolia, southeastern Russia, and northeastern China. Today, it has virtually disappeared from South Korea and is largely confined to a very small part of Russia's southern Far East (the Amur-Ussuri region of Primorye and Khabarovsk, a location where it and the Amur Leopard are now being actively protected). There are very few tigers in Manchuria (northeastern China) and fewer still in North Korea. Captive breeding and conservation programs are currently active.

The tiger population in the Sikhote-Alin was 250 in 1992, increasing to 350 as of 2004, despite significant losses of cubs due to car accidents on the single road that crosses their territory. Illegal poaching has been brought under control thanks to frequent road inspections. It is rumoured that there are still around 20 of these tigers in the Mount Changbai area of China.

As the total population of these tigers fell to 150 in the wild, many subpopulations are possibly not genetically viable, subject to potentially catastrophic inbreeding. However, Russian conservation efforts have led to a revival of the subspecies, and the number of individuals in the Primorsky region of Russia has risen from 450 to 500 in the past decade, indicating positive growth.