Comments on: OKAPI – a Memory in Film from the Ituri

By: Jennie DePlacito

Jennie DePlacito — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:19:15 +0000

I have loved watching par tof the Heart of Lightness. Especially after reading the Heart of Darkness in college and learning more about the sadness and destruction that ethnocentrism often brings. Even if it is not thought to be a problem, most people are sadly ethnocentric.
I lived on a Native American reservation for awhile as a child and it really opened up my eyes to the realities of this world. And the beauties of humanities differences.
Your family understands this well, I see from the video. I have lived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and been to South Africa twice, and would love to learn more about the Congo. Hope to hear from you! Thanks for your time!

By: Bryna Griffin

Bryna Griffin — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:50:52 +0000

Hi Terese –
Just thought you’d be amused to know that we showed this film to our field team a while ago while camped out at Epulu HQ. Last week they requested to see it again! Everyone loves the chameleon bit…
Would love to get a higher res version to play on the full screen… do you know where we can do that?
-Bryna

By: Abby

Abby — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 01:06:43 +0000

I’m 13 and the okapi is my favorite animal. My dream is to do conservation work in the ituri forest, and this video just made my passion for this rainforest burn stronger. Thank you so much.

By: Terese Hart

Terese Hart — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:27:20 +0000

I agree, this is the real world, but it could be extinguished if the Okapi Reserve is not respected. See this:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38076131/ns/world_news-africa/
Alas.

By: frank afenkhena

frank afenkhena — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 20:05:14 +0000

Thank YOu FOR TELLING THE WORLD ABOUT THE REAL WORLD.

By: pamela

pamela — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:21:59 +0000

what a great life you have given you daughters, how blessed they are to have both worlds to live in, the film was beautiful, and i would like to know if you will be making a film about the life of the bonobo’s? they are a very interesting, and loving group of animals from the little i know about them, in light always, pamela

By: Alice/Alys Webber

Alice/Alys Webber — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:36:04 +0000

I enjoyed your film. For a number of yrs I raised basenjis and so knew something of the Itari. Let me say that I saw my first Okapi at the San Diego zoo in the late ’60s, but not one since. I just returned from an internship which included me talking about Okapi. However, I had very little info on them and now am doing research for a biology paper. I wish to know if they walk and trot like camels and gallop like horses or giraffe? I got a bit of film of them walking, but not galloping so can’t compare it.

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By: cherie wheatcroft

cherie wheatcroft — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:01:35 +0000

I am a wildlife artist and have been asked to draw a picture of okapi, to find out more about this fantastic creature I watched your film which for me was incredible. Good luck with all the conservation work. Maybe I could help someway through my art venues.

By: teresehart

teresehart — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:50:09 +0000

Je viens de voir votre commentaire aujourd’hui. Je vous remercie et j’espère que vous allez suivre aussi l’aventure d’aujourd’hui que j’espère aboutira dans une aire protégée!