Giraffes, Okapi, and their extinct relatives
Giraffes are an iconic animal on the African savannah. The only other species in the family Giraffidae are the okapi, which are less well-known forest giraffes found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I will also be having a look at the variety of extinct and ancestral giraffes, which had a wide variety of shapes and sizes of the ossicones on their head.
All pictures attributed to Animal Analytics were taken by me personally. A full description of all others can be found in the following document, along with notable scientific papers I used when researching this topic.
Attributions and Research Papers: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4lk62f...
Timecodes:
00:00 Intro
00:21 Artiodactyla
00:53 Ruminants
02:30 Giraffomorpha
03:13 Palaeomerycidae: Triceromeryx, Tauromeryx, Xenokeryx
04:00 Propalaeoryx
04:32 Climacoceras
05:14 Prolibytherium
05:38 Giraffidae
06:16 Shansitherium
06:35 Samotherium
06:55 Sivatherium
07:36 Extinct Species in Giraffa
08:04 Okapi Distribution and Discovery by Europeans
08:54 Okapi Taxonomic Confusion
09:35 Okapi Description and Behaviours
11:10 Okapi Reproduction
11:59 Okapi Conservation and Conflicts
15:00 Giraffe Taxonomic Confusion
16:13 Giraffe Distribution and Description
19:08 Giraffe Adaptations for Extreme Height
20:10 Giraffe Behaviours
21:35 Giraffe Reproduction
22:45 Giraffe Conservation
23:42 Outro
Thank you for watching, and let me know what animals you would like to see me talk about next.
Your phylogeny video are literally to die for. So informative.
I really like this video and if you don’t mind me asking but can you do one on the goat antelopes and these so called goat antelopes are not really antelopes but instead they are more closely related to sheep and goats than to regular antelopes like gazelles and they are called goat antelopes because of their physical characteristics which are intermediate between those of the stockily built goats and sheep and regular antelopes with their long legs and the goat antelopes come in many shapes from stocky builds like musk ox and takin to medium sized builds like the serows and gorals and from goat like animals like the mountain goat to long horned species that resemble antelopes like the chiru aka Tibetan antelope and the goat antelopes include the Musk Ox, Takins, Serows, Gorals, Chamois, the Mountain goat and the chiru aka Tibetan antelope.
nice video
Do eulipotyphlans and hoatzins
do beavers next. everyone they are related to is extinct.
14:51 if the task of research such morbid things is something you’re comfortable with a video about such incidents would be extremely informative. I had no idea what type of violence conservationist face. You’d think the conservation of animals is something anyone from any cultures no matter temperament or convictions would understand how important conservation is especially as anthropogenic climate change cause a mass extinction.