Animalogic
Animalogic is a Canadian YouTube channel and digital brand hosted by Danielle Dufault, Talia Lowi-Merri, Tasha the Amazon, Aranya Iyer, and Jess Keating.[1] The channel features educational science videos about the animal, plant, and fungi kingdoms. The channel is hosted on multiple OTT media services, including Snapchat, one season of nine episodes available on Pluto TV[2], and one season of twenty two episodes available on Prime Video.[3] The flagship series, also called "Animalogic", is on its sixth season and has been translated into Spanish. The channel also boasts multiple spin-off series. As of March 2022, the channel has 1.6 million subscribers and over 275 million views.
History
Animalogic was created in 2014 by Dylan Dubeau and Andrew Strapp, and is hosted by Danielle Dufault, Talia Lowi-Merri, Tasha the Amazon, Aranya Iyer, and Jess Keating. Animalogic's most viewed video as of March 2022 is "Octopuses are the World’s Greatest Escape Artists (Ft. PhilosophyTube)", and was posted in May of 2016.[4] The video features Abigail Thorn, who produces PhilosophyTube. Animalogic is entered into the 14th Shorty Awards under the categories "TikTok Partnership", "Long Form Video", "YouTube Presence", "Pets and Animals", and "Storytelling".[5] Animalogic's new one-hour nature and wildlife documentary, whose working title is Strange Creatures[6], will premiere on the YouTube channel before also airing on BBC Earth in 2022.[7] In 2021, Blue Ant Media filed for a patent for Animalogic.[8]
Episodes
Series overview
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | ||||
| 1 | 36 | December 22, 2014 | Info needed | ||
| 2 | 36 | Info needed | Info needed | ||
| 3 | 36 | Info needed | Info needed | ||
| 4 | 36 | Info needed | August 21, 2020 | ||
| 5 | 36 | September 4, 2020 | Info needed | ||
| 6 | 36 | Info needed | Ongoing | ||
Season 1 (2014-15)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "The Secret History of the Rabbit" | Dylan Dubeau | Dr. Suzanne MacDonald | December 22, 2014 | |
| In this first episode, Dufault discusses rabbit biology, distribution, and behavior, and their human uses in pregnancy tests and in witchcraft. | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "How Do Pigeons Find Their Way Back Home?" | Dylan Dubeau | Dr. Suzanne MacDonald | January 8, 2015 | |
| Dufault discusses the pigeon's ability to find their way home. Covering the pigeon's message-carrying past from Genghis Khan to World War 2. | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "Swans Mourn their Dead" | Dylan Dubeau | Dr. Suzanne MacDonald | January 15, 2015 | |
| Dufault discusses swan behavior, distribution, protection by law in England and Wales, and monogamous behavior. | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "Is this Opossum Dead?" | Dylan Dubeau | Dr. Suzanne MacDonald | January 21, 2015 | |
| Dufault discusses opossum child rearing, mating, and behavior, including thanatosis. | ||||||
Season 2 (2017)
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| Info–needed | Info–needed | "Info needed" | Info needed | Info needed | Info needed | |
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Season 3 (2018)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
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| Info–needed | Info–needed | "Info needed" | Info needed | Info needed | Info needed | |
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Season 4 (2019)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 144 | Last–season | "Platypus: The King of Weirdos" | Dylan Dubeau | Dylan Dubeau | August 21, 2020 | |
| Dufault goes to Victoria's Otway ranges to see platypus in the wild and arrive at Lake Elizabeth. The episode discusses its origins and convergent evolution with ducks (bill-having), beavers (tail), otters (webbed feet), sharks (electroreceptors) , turtles (egg-laying), reptiles (limbs on the sides of the body), echidna (lack of teeth and stomach), and vipers (venom-having). | ||||||
Season 5 (2020)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 145 | 1 | "Geese: Peace Was Never an Option" | Dylan Dubeau | Andres Salazar | September 4, 2020 | |
| Dufault discusses geese taxonomic rank, migration, and behavior. She also discusses human and geese interactions. | ||||||
Season 6 (2021-22)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 146 | Info–needed | "Tanuki: The Dog That Thinks It’s A Raccoon" | Dylan Dubeau | Andres Salazar | August 6, 2021 | |
| Dufault covers the biology, impact on human history, and mythology of the raccoon dog. | ||||||
| 147 | Info–needed | "You Won’t Believe What Chipmunks Eat For Lunch" | Dylan Dubeau | Andres Salazar | August 27, 2021 | |
| Dufault travels on a nature trail to cover the behaviors and diet of the chipmunk, as well as their effect on the ecosystem. | ||||||
| 148 | Info–needed | "This Rodent Will Ruin A Predator’s Day" | Dylan Dubeau | Andres Salazar | September 17, 2021 | |
| Dufault travels to the forests of Ontario to look at and discuss porcupines and their defence mechanisms. | ||||||
| 149 | Info–needed | "The Giant Pond Rat That Built America" | Dylan Dubeau | Andres Salazar | October 8, 2021 | |
| In this episode, the North American beaver's behaviors, range, and relationship with human history are discussed. | ||||||
| 150 | Info–needed | "The Velvet Worm Looks Like It’s From Another Planet" | Dylan Dubeau | Lauren Greenwood | November 5, 2021 | |
| Dufault discusses the velvet worm's biology, distribution, and predation mechanisms. | ||||||
| 151 | Info–needed | "Wolf Eels Eat Spiny Sea Urchins Alive" | Dylan Dubeau | Lauren Greenwood | November 19, 2021 | |
| Dufault covers the wolf eel's appearance versus their behavior. Their biology is also discussed, as well as the name's status as a misnomer, as the wolf eel is not a true eel. | ||||||
| 152 | Info–needed | "Polar Bears: Don’t Boop The Forbidden Snoot" | Dylan Dubeau | Andres Salazar | January 28, 2022 | |
| Dufault travels to the "Polar Bear Capital of the World" Churchill, Manitoba on goes on a polar bear spotting trip with Lazy Bear Expeditions. She discusses polar bears and their interactions with humans and climate change, and their diets, swimming ability, thermoregulation, and relationships. | ||||||
| 153 | Info–needed | "Arctic Hares Are Big Snowballs" | Dylan Dubeau | Andres Salazar | February 4, 2022 | |
| Dufault travels to Churchill, Manitoba and discusses Arctic hares and their long leap lengths, size, speed, and adaptations to their environment such as thermoregulation, shorter ears to reduce heat loss, and black eyelashes that reduce sun glare. | ||||||
| 154 | Info–needed | "Chevrotain: The 12 Inch Ungulate" | Dylan Dubeau | Lauren Greenwood | February 11, 2022 | |
| Dufault discusses the Chevrotain, the world's smallest hoofed animal. The episode covers the evolutionary origins of the Chevrotain and its behavior, as well as conservation efforts regarding the Chevrotain. | ||||||
| 155 | Info–needed | "Muskox: Thunder On The Tundra" | Dylan Dubeau | Lauren Greenwood | March 11, 2022 | |
| Dufault travels to the Yukon and discusses where muskox live, how their horns function, the origin of the muskox name, and their Ice Age origins. | ||||||
Spinoff series
| Series | Episodes | Series premiere | Series finale | Host(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paleologic | 4 | December 10, 2021 | March 18, 2022 | Danielle Dufault, Talia Low-Meri |
| Floralogic | 25 | April 23, 2020 | Ongoing | Tasha the Amazon |
| World of Birds | 10 | June 25, 2021 | Ongoing | Aranya Iyer |
| Animalogic: Second Nature | 25 | March 15, 2019 | August 7, 2020 | Danielle Dufault, Jess Keating |
| Small Cats Unknown | 13 | October 12, 2018 | October 29, 2021 | Danielle Dufault |
Production
Development
Animalogic was created by Dylan Dubeau and Andrew Strapp. Dylan Dubeau also serves as executive producer, director, and director of photography. Sue Haas is the Vice President and works in digital media at Blue Ant Media.[5] Hosts include Danielle Dufault, Tasha the Amazon, Aranya Iyer, Jess Keating, and Talia Lowi-Merri. Editors are Jim Pitts and Cat Senior. Andres Salazar is the writer, researcher, producer, and camera operator.[1][9] Dr. Suzanne MacDonald was listed as the writer on earlier episodes, Lauren Greenwood has been listed as the writer in more recent episodes, and Colin Cooper is also more recently listed as the camera operator.[10] The show target adults from the ages of 18 to 34, with the largest group of viewers in the United States, though the most engaged viewers are Canadians (as stated by Haas).[11]
Hosts
There are five hosts, though the zoological aspect of the show is mainly hosted by Danielle Dufault, who is also the illustrator for Animalogic, and has hosted for the show since its inception.
Danielle Dufault is a paleoartist and biological illustrator, and is the paleontological illustrator at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM).[12][13] Dufualt hosts the flagship video series titled "Animalogic". Dufault also hosts the "Animalogic: Second Nature" and "Paleologic" spin-off series of the YouTube channel, the former of which she hosts alongside Jess Keating and the latter of which she hosts alongside Talia Lowi-Merri.
Talia Lowi-Merri, host of the "Paleologic" spin-off video series alongside Dufault, is a 5th year PhD candidate at the University of Toronto (U of T) after a bachelor of science at the U o T in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Her expertise falls in the categories of ecomorphology, geometric morphometrics, phylogenetics, ornithology, and palaeontology.[14]
Tasha the Amazon is a rapper and singer who hosts the "Floralogic" spin-off video series, covering the topics of plants and fungi. Her degree from Victoria University, Toronto is in psychology.[15]
Aranya Iyer is a self-proclaimed birder who hosts the "World of Birds" spin-off video series.[16] She is a MSc candidate at Western University studying avian migration[17], specifically how magnetic cues could be helping birds to navigate.[18]
Jess Keating is a zoologist with a Masters degree in Animal Science and author who hosts the "Animalogic: Second Nature" spin-off video series alongside Dufault.[19] She authored the biography for oceanographic cartographer Marie Tharp, Ocean Speaks: How Marie Tharp Revealed The Ocean’s Biggest Secret, which received an honor for the 2020 Jane Addams Children's Book Award in the 'Book for Younger Children' category.[20] Her picture book biography for ichthyologist Eugenie Clark, Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist, made it onto the 2018 Rise: A Feminist Book Project list in the Early Readers Nonfiction category.[21]
Filming
Camera operators include Andres Salazar, who also serves as writer, researcher, and producer, and Colin Cooper. The show is filmed in studio, and the hosts will also occasionally travel on location around the world to film animals in their native habitat. Episodes range from five to twelve minutes in length and will focus on one animal, extinct animal, plant, or fungi. The channel uses original footage, animations, and also include time-lapse photography of Dufault's drawings of the featured animal, or plant or fungi.[5] Music is from Audio Network.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Animalogic". youtube.com. Animalogic.
- ↑ "Animalogic". pluto.tv. Pluto TV.
- ↑ "Animalogic". tv.apple.com/gb. Apple TV+.
- ↑ "Animalogic". youtube.com. Animalogic.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "ANIMALOGIC". shortyawards.com. Shorty Awards LLC.
- ↑ "Blue Ant Media Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary with 10 New and Returning Original Productions for Its Canadian Broadcast Channels". blueantmedia.com. Blue Aunt Media.
- ↑ Sardi, Liza. "Blue Ant Media unveils greenlights for fall and spring 2022". playbackonline.ca. Playback.
- ↑ "ANIMALOGIC". uspto.report. United States Patent and Trademark Office.
- ↑ "About". animalogic.ca. Animalogic.
- ↑ "This Plant Is At Risk of Extinction". youtube.com. Animalogic.
- ↑ "Blue Ant expands its multi-platform offering on YouTube". mediaincanada.com. Media In Canada.
- ↑ "Illustrations that Bring the Past Back to Life!". rom.on.ca. The Royal Ontario Museum.
- ↑ "How to Draw a Dinosaur: An Interview with a Paleoartist". interactive.wttw.com. WTTW.
- ↑ "Talia Lowi-Merri". scholar.google.ca. Google Scholar.
- ↑ "Tasha Schumann". alumni.utoronto.ca. University of Toronto.
- ↑ "Aranya Iyer". ca.linkedin.com. LinkedIn.
- ↑ "Aranya Iyer". geospatial.uwo.ca. Western University.
- ↑ "Aranya Iyer". natureconservancy.ca. Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC).
- ↑ "Jess Keating Author Interview". jeanbooknerd.com. Jean BookNerd.
- ↑ "Hooked on Books with Author Jess Keating". teachersoncall.ca. Teachers on Call.
- ↑ "Interview with Jess Keating". celebratepicturebooks.com. Celebrate Picture Books.
External links
- Animalogic-their main channel that hosts their web content
- Animalogic En Español—their sister channel that hosts their Spanish translated videos
- Animalogic by Design Archived 2014-08-26 at the Wayback Machine—their sister channel that hosts speed art videos of the illustrations in Animalogic videos
- Animalogic—their official website
- Animalogic by Design-Animalogic by Design on IMDb
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