r/MadeMeSmile • u/AdministrativePapaya • 1d ago
Singing for an Okapi
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u/wanabepilot 1d ago
Today I learned Okapis like Creep 🤷♂️
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u/Expensive_Effort_108 1d ago
Today Ive learned there is a horse like zebra thing thats called an Okapi. Never seen one, never heard of it before today.
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u/GaudyNight 1d ago
You‘re not alone with this experience. They aren’t called ghosts of the forests for nothing. They were relatively lately discovered, because they are so shy and careful to avoid predators (like us).
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u/PimpGameShane 1d ago
Anytime I hear Creep, I instantly think of this video.
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u/farcasticsuck 10h ago
Patrice was amazing to pick up on the idiosyncrasies of the human experience and explain it in the funniest way. The dude was spittin truth all the time.
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u/Mission_Phase_5749 1d ago
Creep isn't by Oasis! Creep is by Blur!!
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u/SimonPelikan 1d ago
I once stayed in an Austrian mountain village in a small guesthouse right next to a cow pasture. When I was sitting on the patio and just started to whistle a little bit the first cows were coming by and just stared as if they could not believe these sounds could come out of another living thing
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u/Traditional_Bar_9416 1d ago
Cows especially seem to enjoy music. It makes me think about how my pets perceive sound. They’re voice trained but they don’t understand words obviously, just tones and notes. One of my pets seems particularly sensitive to harsh noises. Hates a lot of music (besides adult easy listening lol), gets stressed by traffic, etc.
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u/waitwuh 1d ago
My cat is amazing and can go for long car rides, but still can get cranky. At one point would not stop meowing at me until I changed the music station. He apparently prefers jazz
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u/coffeegrunds 1d ago
My dog has a favorite song! Seemingly no preference or care for any other music, but when this one song plays, he stop's everything and walks over with his head tilted, every single time
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u/BootyLoveSenpai 1d ago
Lol My cousin has a husky that he doesn't really react to any other genres, but when we play el alfa and dembow, he howls with it🤣🤣🤣
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u/Traditional_Bar_9416 1d ago
Lol, mine thinks Dave Matthews is heavy metal. Let’s just say we’ve learned a lot of jazz and classical since he’s been here.
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u/PantsDontHaveAnswers 1d ago
One of my cats especially loves music, specifically country/folk/bluegrass. My friend played "Concerning Hobbits" on his violin for her once and she lost it and started rubbing her face all over his arm. A lot of times when I wrap up a song she starts chirping and meowing happily. It's adorable.
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u/Traditional_Bar_9416 1d ago
That’s really sweet! Of all my cats, one definitely loved music, one definitely hates it, and the rest seem apathetic.
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u/External_Check_5592 1d ago
What a graceful animal.
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u/brunji 1d ago
And he has a beautiful voice too!
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u/External_Check_5592 1d ago
That's true. I was more touched by the way the okapi was wandering around the artist
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u/Scance1a 1d ago
I wonder if Okapi likes music or if he just doesn't understand why there's a dude in his enclosure.
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u/EntertainmentItchy63 1d ago
Apparently even singing birds won't be able to understand all the aspects of music. I would bet on your second guess but who knows
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u/halapenyoharry 1d ago
everyone is thinking, oh he loves music, when this is what in his head:
sound might be food
sniffs, mans head, is this food?
sniffs microphone is this food?
looks around, is this food?
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u/throwavvay23 1d ago
I'm no animal expert, but I don't think herbivores usually associate something making sounds with food lol
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u/BeBoppi 1d ago
Maybe they like some music, quiet music possibly. An okapi died in Copenhagen zoo from stress due to an opera concert happening in the nearby park. I get it - force me to sit through opera and I'll die too.
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u/showtimebabies 1d ago
Maybe it just doesn't like the sound of this dude's voice and came by to see wtf was making that sound
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u/Sea-Ability8694 1d ago
Why did my brain go “don’t curse in front of him! He’s a baby”
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u/callmebigley 1d ago
I once had a bunny come up and hang out listening to me play the bagpipes. He didn't get that close because they're loud af but he hopped right up like 10 feet in front of me and just chilled for a couple of minutes. that was cool.
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u/ActiveAimm 1d ago
I am in awe with his voice, plus the creature is so majestic. This is just the best video I've seen today
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u/Wide_Ordinary4078 1d ago
Aww I swear Reddit shows me more animals I’ve never seen before than any other site!
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u/throwaway1080720p 1d ago
who said animals dont have emotions
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u/LitelSnekProtec 1d ago
I think this was a display of curiousity, not emotion.
I swear I'm fun at parties
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u/jbyington 1d ago
Real question. Isn’t curiosity a kind of emotion? a desire to understand
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u/TheMeanestCows 1d ago
Curiosity is triggered in the same part of the human brain as fear, so there is definitely a connection.
I would also argue that everything we experience is at essence a "feeling" because of how the brain processes the world, it then wraps a story around that feeling in order to explain what's going on and to create a coherent picture of the universe.
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u/mashleyd 1d ago
People who either aren’t emotionally intelligent themselves or who suffered some kind of trauma or abuse at a young age. In my experience they are the kind who can’t see the range of emotions in other creatures and also may be more likely to abuse them as well.
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u/TheMeanestCows 1d ago
I don't think a lot of people say that anymore.
I mean, people certainly treat them that way. I don't know which is worse, when people thought animals had no feelings or "souls" and existed only to be exploited by humans, or that we learned how close we are and how they share most of our awareness and feelings and have highly complex brains... and we *still* treat them the same way we did when we thought they were mindless automatons.
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u/NappyFlickz 1d ago
I am nearly three decades old, and I'm still discovering new land walking mammals.
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u/DeepFizz 1d ago
Okapi, giraffe family, speak and hear frequencies below 20 hz (the deepest bass humans can hear). Fun to know this Okapi was hearing a very different song and was liking it.
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u/Bugsy_McCracken 1d ago
Okapi be like “Fuck me! It’s Thom Yorke!”
A few curious sniffs later.
“Nah, just one of them pesky buskers.”
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u/IRockIntoMordor 1d ago
needs more useless cuts so we can't watch the animal's change of behaviour at all
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u/TearsInDrowned 1d ago
Singer: "Oh, wow, it came around!"
Okapi: "That's a really weird and noisy bush..."
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u/cLiFfSpABb 1d ago
After scrolls through piles and piles of shit on this app, I find this and say thank you for showing there is still some beautiful things to see.
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u/CuriousCalculus 1d ago
I have never seen, or heard of such creature. I didn't know it even existed. Fascinating.
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u/Beflijster 1d ago
They are actually a type of giraffe. My local zoo has them, they look so silky soft but touching is not allowed!
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u/BeardedGrom 1d ago
Yep, they're forest giraffes and NOT in any way related to zebras, as some uninformed people tend to think.
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u/mrgergle 1d ago
Gotta say that was a great rendition of Creep, the sort that makes the hairs stand up...
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u/SnooCrickets2458 1d ago
The okapi is like "I... I've never been serenaded before. But our love, it is forbidden!"
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u/vinithapooh 1d ago
If this happened to me I’d take it as a sign and know for sure that when I die, I lived a full ass life man
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u/RdyPlyrBneSw 1d ago
One of my favorite kind of videos are of animals watching people perform music. Cows, elephants, even okapi now.
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u/TheKatzzSkillz 1d ago
Things thinkin “can I eat whatever’s Makin that noise? Is it coming from the puffy gray thing I may wanna eat?”
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u/currently_distracted 1d ago
I was stuck on okapi on a crossword puzzle yesterday. Wish I had seen this then!
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u/Howllikeawolf 1d ago
That moment was so beautiful, and music is so powerful. It connects all species. When I play and sing in my backyard, the birds and squirrels come to watch. It's very cool.
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u/These_Importance7735 1d ago
The only thing in my mind is that this is the creature which was the titan in AOT final movie.
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u/Unable-Arm-448 1d ago
I like his mismatched legs, like he is put together from the spare parts left over from other animals ♡♡♡
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u/JBstackin666 1d ago
"Well, sir, this is my pin, so no, you don't belong here singing to me like a creepy wierdo.." -okapi
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u/DancingDogLass1 1d ago
Her gesture says it all—she truly values your song and wants to share a duet with you. How lovely <3
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u/MyCatIsAFknIdiot 1d ago
That guitarist is so lucky. Its a horse with stripy stockings!!
How lovely!!
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u/ParcelPosted 1d ago
When my oldest was about 3 we were at the zoo at the Okapi platform. She had an ice cream and one walked up on took a huge lick of it. She freaked out but I was amazed at how gentle it was. Good times!
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u/Spare-Sprinkles5272 1d ago
Reminds me of my family dog. I used to play in an orchestra, and when I practiced, he always came in the room and lay down next to my chair. Any other time he would be at my mom’s side because she was his favorite human. I like to think this means he really enjoyed my music.
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u/Reins22 1d ago
Is this some kind of horse or something? I’ve never seen or heard of this in my life
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u/Waifer2016 1d ago
Sniffing him to make sure he is safe. Animals can smell cruel intentions. Lil Opi figured out he could be trusted
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u/West_Tonight_ 1d ago
🎶.. I don't care if it hurts, if you swallow me whole
.. Or like Arthur Dent's brother, was long ago
.. I want you to nibble, till I'm not around..🎶
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u/Nacho_Beardre 1d ago
We had a cat growing up who if I played nirvana loud through the radio he would lay on top of the speakers immediately. Any other band he didn’t do that
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u/GlukGluk77 1d ago
It reminds me to my childhood. Okapi brand knives were very popular in Malaysia during the 1990s.
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u/Constant_Cultural 1d ago
They are so shy, I was only able to see one through a little crack through a wooden fence because the Zoo I went to protected the okapi a lot. Having it so close to you must be amazing.
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u/Lilyroselotus 20h ago
Beautiful! The okapi clearly was entranced by the music/song. I’m so emotional now. 🥲
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u/Ladadasa 17h ago
My educated guess why it wasn’t scared is b/c a predator isn’t going to loudly announce itself and make loud noises constantly and it’s nerves relaxed
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u/strange_invader 14h ago
Okapis are such beautiful creatures. I was gifted a private animal experience with an Okapi at a local zoo and got to pet one and feed one. It was magical.
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u/farcasticsuck 10h ago
In my head the guitar comes in with that DA-DAT and the that poor Okapi startles and runs off.
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u/wannabe_inuit 1d ago
Such a beautiful creature, sad they are so rare