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Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 4:01 pm
by jwa1107
Three-month-old okapi baby Lulu, left, looks back under the protection of her 7-year-old mother Layla at 'Zoorasia' zoo in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2004. Lulu, now weighs 114 kilograms (251 pounds), was born Oct. 21, 2003 as the second baby to 330-kilogram (727-pound) Layla and an okapi father which were transfered to the zoo six years ago from the United States. It is quite rare for the endangered artiodactyls to bear more than one baby and Layla giving birth of her second babyLulu, that means a pearl in Swahili, is reportedly the first case in Asia. (AP Photo/Chiaki Tsukumo)
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 12:53 pm
by cosmichedgehog
awwwwwwwwwwwww, how cute!
great news for the Okapi population! thanks for posting
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 12:28 am
by phantom
Wow! Great picture. This is great news for such a rare species.
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 12:31 am
by okapi_07
they just had a new okapi born at the columbus zoo too hopefully ill be able to see it when it warms up(hopefully soon)
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 1:22 pm
by Raindragon
Oh wow that's brilliant news! Such a cute face!!
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 2:55 pm
by Animal Guy
Facinating creatures, Okapi are.And it's wonderful that an indangered species gave birth!
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 4:46 pm
by Kielo91
Oh, how adorable!
It's such tremendously magnificent news to hear!
Okapi_07, I knew you'd like this news.
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 10:11 pm
by okapi_07
of course! any engangered species birth is great news
esspecially okapis
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 10:15 pm
by Kielo91
Heh, I thought so.
And I thoroughly agree. The birth of any endangered species is marvelous news!
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 10:17 pm
by Robbieb
seeing spicies almost brought to extinction reproduce and thrive makes me so happy
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 11:39 pm
by okapi_07
sometimes the programs to save animals work a little too well though...ex: canadian geese (i was surprised to learn) were once nearly extinct now they can be found many places in HUGE numbers and are sometimes even considered pests but sadly
this is not always the case hopefully some day animals such as rhinos and okapis
will be considered too plentiful but for now it is unclear what will become of them
Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 2:36 am
by phantom
Another example surprisingly has been bald eagles. Since DDT was banned the eagle populations on the whole have been rising steadily but now fishermen are complaining there are too many eagles snatching up all the fish. Luckily enough the government reaffirmed strong protection laws for the bald eagles. Wolves are the same way. Sheep ranchers in the lower Rockies and Mexico want to kill the wolves but they are endangered and the populations are improving and the farmers have their hands tied. Hopefully we can one day coexist with our nature friends in peace.
Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 2:50 am
by superlion
Then there are sad stories that are about the opposite. Passenger pidgeons were so densely populated a century and a half ago, that a flock could literally blot out the sky! People thought they were so numerous that they couldn't possibly be killed off. But through unregulated hunting and the pidgeon's low reproductive rate, they were in fact exterminated from the face of the planet. They've been extinct for a while now....
Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 6:25 pm
by Wolfyu
Wonderful news that there's a baby Okapi! Mother's second one, too!
I had no idea that canadian geese were once rare. There have been loads of them down here in Missouri during the spring and summer months.
Passenger pidgions are one of those sad stories. I look back on the people that killed all of them with a bit of shame. >:/
Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 9:51 pm
by dude_88
the sumatrin rhino at the cincinatti zoo is pregnate for a second time.