ANIMAL INDEX

The Dream Of An All-Female Society Has Come True — For These Termites Imagine there are no men. It’s easy, if you try. Imagine no Glenn or Ben. Among us, only, uh, pie. September 30, 2018 at 11:00PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2QkBFUi

The Surprising History (And Future) Of Dinosaurs On average, a new species is discovered every week. We are in the golden age of paleontology. September 30, 2018 at 04:33PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2IvT4GU

Meet The 'Brave Ones': The Women Saving Africa's Wildlife Africa's first armed, all-women anti-poaching unit is changing the way that animals are protected – and arresting poachers without firing a single shot. September 30, 2018 at 01:01PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2IwwdLr

Why Did Our Fish Ancestors Decide To Flop Onto Land? It turns out that we owe our human intelligence to our fish parents leaving the ocean, but why did they do it? September 29, 2018 at 08:00PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2IvhvEt

Cats Are No Match for New York City's Rats Despite popular wisdom, rats are too big and too fierce for cats. September 29, 2018 at 07:06PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2Q9Xju4

Wrigley Stadium Fans Rally Around A Very Persistent Jumping Rat In One Truly Absurd Moment Having now earned the moniker "Wrigley rat," this little underdog garnered the love and affection of thousands for his refusal to give up in the face of adversity. September 28, 2018 at 09:04PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2zEkDLj

This Video Of A Cobra Regurgitating Another Cobra Will Leave You In Gross Disbelief Our jaws dropped as did the snake's. September 28, 2018 at 07:57PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2DFqdRH

Holy Moly, This Dog Can Run Over 30 Miles Per Hour Is this a "Westworld" robot dog? Because that's our only possible explanation. September 28, 2018 at 06:53PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2R67zVH

We Are Bad People And This Video Of A Cat Upchucking From Its Perch So Goddamn Funny We hope that this purr lad promptly received medical treatment after this video was captured. September 28, 2018 at 06:53PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2y6wiRd

Can The Ghost Dolphin Survive Obscurity? Researchers struggle to save something they know next to nothing about. September 28, 2018 at 06:22PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2NOT6j0

We Can't Get Over This Mother Stealing Peoples Packages With Her Kids In Tow The stolen Amazon package contained Blue Buffalo brand dog food, Milk-Bone brand dog treats and banana chocolate chip Lara bars. September 28, 2018 at 05:33PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2NQ0cUg

This Glass Frog Is So Otherworldly-Looking, But We Just Can't Look Away What is this adorable alien and how have we never seen this before?? September 28, 2018 at 03:16PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2QigCSg

Chipmunk Frantically Tries To Open Up A Container Full Of Almonds If we saw a pool full of cheeseburgers, we would act the same dang way. September 28, 2018 at 02:20PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2xJ7IX7

Baby Elephant Can't Get Out Of Muddy Bank, So The Whole Herd Rushes Over To Help This is why elephants are some of the smartest and caring mammals out there. September 27, 2018 at 09:24PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2zAPCaR

Very English Man Makes Best Friends With A Wee Bird When Liverpudlian Liam Fairclough left his house on September 23, he had no idea he was about to have the best night of his life. September 27, 2018 at 08:03PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2IkX1Oz

Kitten Is Totally Enrapt Upon Realizing She Can Extend And Retract Her Paws "You mean, these things in the air... are part of my body?" September 27, 2018 at 06:54PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2QdNED4

Happy White Cow Doesn't Want To Stop Playing Fetch With Her Human All this cow wants is a simple life of grass and bouncy balls and humans who love her very much. September 27, 2018 at 06:04PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2N0pEkN

Why Does This Guilty Poodle Look So Strangely Human? This ten-second-long video will have us scratching our heads for much, much longer. September 27, 2018 at 04:56PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2ImSFGq

Pair Of Puppies Figures Out There's A Ball Inside Of A Tree Using Smell Alone The owner promises that the dogs "didn't see the ball, they just smelled it's there." September 27, 2018 at 01:53PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2N4z9zu

Rabbit Finds Out His Cat Friend Is Trapped In Shed, Comes Up With Genius Solution To Rescue Him This is both sweet and oddly ingenious. September 27, 2018 at 12:00PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2zzT7OX

This Big Bear Catching Fish Underwater Is A Surprisingly Wondrous Thing Sure, this is what these creatures evolved to do, but the efficiency of it still has us a bit awestruck. September 26, 2018 at 08:19PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2Ogtivq

Better People Than Us Save A Skunk Trapped Under A Fence "Do you want to take the rabies side or the smelly side?" September 26, 2018 at 08:19PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2QbByKx

Holy Shit, That's A Lot Of Frogs Of course people farm frogs. Of course. That's a thing that makes sense. It's just also a thing that we've never, ever had to think about before and it's sort of twisting our minds. September 26, 2018 at 07:19PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2R1gkQE

Seal Slaps A Kayaker In The Face With An Octopus ​Just when you think you've seen everything, along comes a video of a seal whipping out of the water and bashing an unsuspecting kayaker in the face. September 26, 2018 at 07:06PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2OUdOu6

The Surviving — And Thriving — 'Cocaine Hippos' From Pablo Escobar's Zoo Some scientists think Colombia's "cocaine hippos" could help fill-in for long extinct megafauna, while others argue that they should go. September 26, 2018 at 06:27PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2xSz4JB

Guy Pulls A Gator's Tail, Which Turns Out To Be A Really Bad Idea "I wanted to try to pull a huge gator on land. I found out he was ready to eat me for lunch instead!" You don't say. September 26, 2018 at 06:14PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2zvIrAU

This Footage Of A Wildebeest Herd Is Cool But We Still Can't Forgive Them For Simba's Dad A mob of 200 wildebeest hoofs their way up a riverbank and it's pure bedlam. September 26, 2018 at 06:14PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2Q8Ogd2

This Man Is The Pied Piper Of Raccoons And It's Super Weird Whatever you want to do on the weekends is your prerogative, guy. September 26, 2018 at 05:05PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2Qa6N8L

Thousands Of Bees Released Into The Wild After Tractor Trailer Car Crash Apparently, this is what you get when a tractor trailer carrying beehives crashes into another tractor on the interstate. September 26, 2018 at 02:59PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2DuS2Mw

We Appreciate The Ambition Of This Very Small Kitten Trying To Carry A Big Fish You miss 100% of the fish you don't try to eat. September 26, 2018 at 02:13PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2NIe0Ai

Dog Rebels Against The Repressive Cultural Expectations Surrounding Cleanliness He refuses to conform to our human expectations for what a golden retriever should be. September 26, 2018 at 11:44AM via Digg https://ift.tt/2NDs3ad

A Tiger Hunt In India In an exclusive excerpt from the forthcoming collection 'Impossible Owls,' the writer Brian Phillips goes on a quest for tigers in India. September 26, 2018 at 03:54AM via Digg https://ift.tt/2xG8Ier

Large Dog Helps His Little Buddy Commit A Jailbreak He's just honoring the great compact between dog brothers. September 25, 2018 at 08:25PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2N0Uz0j

Does Disney Hate Cats? When it comes to the animal villains in Disney movies, data shows some animals are far more likely to play the antagonist than others. September 25, 2018 at 12:17PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2Q4SQZU

Seal Has So Much Fun Splashing That It Doesn't Notice The Great White Shark Circling Around It The sea doesn't deserve these silly, happy creatures. September 24, 2018 at 09:02PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2pzfpL5

If There's Anything Scarier Than A Copperhead Snake, It's A Copperhead With Two Heads After studying the snake, the Wildlife Center of Virginia found that "the left head has the dominant esophagus and the right head has the more developed throat for eating." September 24, 2018 at 07:59PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2OQ0yqm

Please, Don't Do This Danish tourist Niels Jensen was in a wildlife park in Australia and decided it would be an excellent idea to feed a 1400-pound crocodile and then sit on its back. Brilliant, Niels. September 24, 2018 at 05:44PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2O43ZwK

Watching This Snake Work Its Ass Off To Swallow A Chicken Egg Is Oddly Mesmerizing This eastern rat snake's eyes are definitely bigger than its stomach, but this long boy may just have the chutzpah to pull it off. September 24, 2018 at 04:18PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2zqxG2N

If You're Not Afraid Of Losing A Finger Or Two, Hand Feed A Bull Shark By All Means We, however, would like all our fingers to remain intact, so we're just going to stand at the sidelines and watch, thank you very much. September 24, 2018 at 03:12PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2xKploI

You Will Experience A Rollercoaster Of Emotions Watching This Raccoon Scale The Outside Of A Building What is with all of these raccoons climbing the outsides of buildings? There must be something in the raccoon water. September 24, 2018 at 02:31PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2Q1iizh

Orange Poof Still Doesn't Quite Know How Howling Works He just wants to live up to his wolf great grandparents great expectations. September 24, 2018 at 09:15AM via Digg https://ift.tt/2O7iujk

All Hail This Doofy Squirrel That Got Its Head Stuck In A Cup And curse the shitty humans that got him in this situation with their littering. September 22, 2018 at 10:15AM via Digg https://ift.tt/2O7CBhq

Don't Piss Off A Mama Cow Or any mom, for that matter, or prepare to suffer the consequences. September 21, 2018 at 08:44PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2DkP397

Cat Destroys His Owners Blinds And Is Still Somehow Completely Adorable Maybe it's time to move to a curtain-only setup. September 21, 2018 at 05:05PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2xFbaRz

Family Leaves Car Door Open While Unpacking Car, Returns To Find It Totaled With A Bear Inside After leaving the car, the bear then walked back to the family's garage and started eating their muffin mix. September 21, 2018 at 05:05PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2QPqK5O

Huge Idiot Jumps Into Zoo's Elephant Enclosure, Faces Up With Full Grown Adult Elephants It's not a great situation when the animals are exhibiting far better behavior — in this case, showing the intruder the way to the door — than the human. September 21, 2018 at 03:13PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2DlP3Wu

This Video Of A Gulper Eel Unhinging Its Gigantic Jaw Is Terrifying Aliens are already on earth, and we call them "gulper eels." September 21, 2018 at 11:53AM via Digg https://ift.tt/2OJ27Gy

How The Octopus Got Its Smarts Did the octopus evolve its unique intelligence by playing fast and free with the genetic code? September 21, 2018 at 11:46AM via Digg https://ift.tt/2QOqpR2

Researchers Gave Octopuses MDMA In The Name Of Science The human and octopus lineages split 500 million years ago, but apparently we both retained the gene for partying. September 20, 2018 at 09:33PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2OHP3RS

A 558-Million-Year-Old Mystery Has Been Solved Scientists have finally confirmed that a weird ribbed oval called Dickinsonia is an animal. September 20, 2018 at 09:33PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2NXlWwH