大阪・海遊館 Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan

大阪・海遊館 Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan is the official YouTube channel of the aquarium near Osaka Bay in the Minato Ward of Osaka, Japan. One of the largest world's aquariums, it was opened in May of 1990 and to this day remains Japan's most visited aquarium.
==Content==
The channel is mostly known for uploading videos about saving animals and teaching them to assimilate into life in an aquarium. So far, the aquarium has hosted penguins, seals, sea tortoises, jellyfish, ocean sunfish, squid, iguanas, capybaras, sea otters, zebra shark, porcupine fish, South American pilchard, and butterflyfish. The aquarium is also hosts flora and fauna indigenous to Japan, like rare seto fish and the Japanese land salamander. 
The first videos on the channel were trailers in Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq-t64iD2oIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP_YXyUONNshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eBs0O5uOL0 They would also interview employees like their chefs and scuba divers.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hso7D596-Kghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbEWzDapILI Occasionally the employees would vlog themselves too, some of which were eudcational about aquarium life.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt1StuoEPr8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAjr798Qe7M However their popularity bursted when they uploaded videos centering around their animals, birds and sea flora.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAit2T4mq-ohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjtHikrLNFYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXh6c82h9UYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kMIYjOezu0 
On May 26, 2021, Danny Derany posted a video from their YouTube channel on his Twitter about a baby seal's first swim lesson, boosting their popularity and causing several people to flock the original video on their channel.https://twitter.com/DannyDeraney/status/1397357147994820611https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2SvailvvHQ It was subsequently posted on several other social media platforms as well. In the span of a week the channel's most viewed videos were all about said seal.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ95Lh2s1F0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2WLePoc70ohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEg706rzCRwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRzKzY47VhEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGV_CcKPWDchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi7zlKPdwK8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uFaUkk2zh8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGV_CcKPWDc 
As of 2021, the aquarium has eight floors, has over 420 different species, has over 29K animals and receives 2.5 million visitors annually.
==Trivia==
* Their aquarium has the biggest shark in captivity.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t2587srx60
*One of their seals reached meme status on Reddit.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btk-CiFTxmEhttps://www.reddit.com/r/MemeTemplatesOfficial/comments/jbxacg/guy_explaining_as_potato_seal_listens_hd/
*According to the news, the most popular animals on display are the whale sharks.
==References==
Category:Educational YouTubers
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Category:Japanese YouTubers
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