ANIMAL INDEX

Very Nice Chimpanzee Intervenes And Returns Stolen Selfie Stick To Tourist "Come on, mate, you know how much humans need these selfie sticks to survive." November 30, 2018 at 07:12PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2BIFUUZ

This Little Boy Cuddling With A Brown Cow Is The Sweetest Thing We've Seen This Week Nothing soothes our jaded souls more than watching a kid and his bovine pal just hanging out together like best friends. November 30, 2018 at 06:27PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2AyMcEQ

Meet The 96-Year-Old Man Who Turned Southern Idaho Into A Bluebird Haven Al Larson has spent four decades building hundreds of nest boxes for Western and Mountain Bluebirds. Now these homes and their inhabitants are facing the test of climate change. November 30, 2018 at 04:12PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2KK9HQi

A Quiet Little Moment Of Two Blissed Out Highland Calves Getting Groomed Here's a perfect moment of quiet and happiness to kick off your day with. November 30, 2018 at 03:14PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2FLpfEm

Insects Are Dying At An Alarming Rate, And Other Facts Welcome to What We Learned This Week​, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: it's not just the bees that are dying at an alarming rate, at least one guy bowled a perfect game on 9/11 and there was a big earthquake that no one felt. November 30, 2018 at 12:50PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2zzT8C7

Scientists Found A New Species Of Wasp That Turns Spiders Into Zombies In the Ecuadorian Amazon, a new species of wasp is inflicting horror movie-worthy terror on "social" spiders. November 30, 2018 at 08:21AM via Digg https://ift.tt/2Rot6sg

Incredible BBC Earth Footage Of A Lion Fighting Off Over 20 Hyenas Even the king of the jungle needs a hand sometimes, one of those times being when he's surrounded by a pack of hungry hyenas. November 29, 2018 at 07:38PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2TRUpNk

This Bear Thinks He's People Look at this bear, opening up the door to a California Highway Patrol station like he's a person. Just look at him. November 29, 2018 at 07:27PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2RsMIMd

The Man Behind New York's Hot Duck Sensation If there's one person responsible for the viral fame of the Hot Duck (also known as the Mandarin duck) — the reason for the crowds and the New York Times features and the beautiful fan art — it's David Barrett. November 29, 2018 at 06:12PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2BHlqvV

The Mr. Magoo Of Lions Gets Himself Stuck In A Tree You can see the regret in his eyes. November 29, 2018 at 02:48AM via Digg https://ift.tt/2Rkbq0V

This Hawk Has 9 Lives This hawk went from looking dead as a doornail to completely normal in the space of about one second. November 28, 2018 at 08:44PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2SfdTdd

Polar Bear Sees Go Pro Camera, Decides To Turn It Into A Chew Toy So this is what it feels like to be within the jaws of a gigantic polar bear. November 28, 2018 at 08:20PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2DZrHW4

Man Trains A Cat To Launch A Rocket In One Of The Most Absurd Stunts We've Seen On The Internet It does not go off without a hitch, but this is a story not of perfection but of commitment, perseverance and online glory. November 28, 2018 at 07:27PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2QmsOFc

Fox Cub With Major Zoomies Just Wants To Play With His New Human Friends Give it a couple hundred years and people will be keeping foxes in their homes like cats and dogs. November 28, 2018 at 04:19PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2rbpj6k

How climate change wiped out the real unicorns By analyzing the animal's DNA, the researchers discovered that, despite appearances, the Siberian unicorn was only a very distant relative of today's living rhinos, and in fact the last surviving member of a unique mammal family. This was a completely different beast. November 28, 2018 at 03:16PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2E0QE3s

China's Mixed Messages On The Global Trade In Endangered-Animal Parts Over the past few years, China has tried to refashion itself as a responsible global leader on climate change and environmental issues. It has also become a champion of wildlife conservation. November 28, 2018 at 10:48AM via Digg https://ift.tt/2AumLUV

This Cow Is HUGE At just under 2 meters and just over 3,000 pounds, Knickers the Australian cow is one full-sized bull. November 27, 2018 at 11:26PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2QuI5nD

We Can't Stop Watching This 7-Second Video Of A Man Mimicking A Cow Or is it a cow mimicking a man? November 27, 2018 at 09:03PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2FWD6YP

Man Greatly Underestimates The Electric Pulses Of Electric Eel Babies They might look cute and tiny, but don't go poking your hand in the same pool they're in. November 27, 2018 at 07:01PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2TRdwHh

Dog And Cat Rage Against One Another In The Great Water Case Battle Of 2018 This is actually an art piece about human plastic consumption devastating ecologies. You wouldn't get it. November 27, 2018 at 06:02PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2TQveur

French Bulldog Finally Finds The Howl Buddy He's Been Waiting For All This Time "We just get each other." November 27, 2018 at 06:02PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2AstQW1

We're Pretty Sure This Raven Speaks Fluent English This regal boy just wants to be sure that you're alright. November 27, 2018 at 05:08PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2DMH7vX

Owner Finds His Dog Having A Dramatic Pity Party When He Thinks He's Alone Being a pooch isn't all rainbows and chew toys. November 27, 2018 at 04:05PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2r9my5e

Lion Finds Itself Cornered By Hyenas, Desperately Tries To Call In Backup Disney's marketing team is working overtime because we're almost certain this exact scene unfolds in "The Lion King." November 27, 2018 at 03:10PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2FGCarf

This Bull Has Forgotten How To Bull, Thinks He's A Horse, Instead A woman bonded with this bull when he was just a calf, saving him from slaughter by convincing his farmer to sell him. He was raised alongside her pony, picking up horse tricks along the way. November 27, 2018 at 01:01PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2KB2fql

Huge Dog And Mini Horse Are The Cutest Best Friend Pair You'll See All Week Either these two really love each other or they both want to eat the other's harnesses. We can't tell which. November 26, 2018 at 09:17PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2r7PyKE

Extra Cute Rat Chirps Its Way Through A Strawberry Some folks out there would call this animal a "dog." We don't see it. November 26, 2018 at 07:07PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2KyTYDq

Face-Off Between Bikers And Angry Bull Does Not Go At All As Expected Think you've gained an upper hand against your bovine foe? Think again. November 26, 2018 at 03:11PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2PTqFkR

Audacious Diver Gently Pats Tiger Shark On The Nose As Though It Were A Large, Wet Dog When you look up "chutzpah" in the dictionary you see a screenshot of this guy treating a large, vicious predator like a dang pet. November 26, 2018 at 02:30PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2AsD19g

Cat Stares Down Bear Through Glass Door, Lets Everyone Know Who's Boss ​Never underestimate small animals. Especially when it's a territorial feline that isn't afraid to pounce first. November 25, 2018 at 07:38PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2PSJTqJ

Stepan The Bear Just Wants To Share With His Best Friend Stepan is a 25-year-old trained brown bear, who came to his owner's life when he was 3-month-old. He was found and injured by hunters prior his owners found him and now he's like their little child. November 25, 2018 at 07:00PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2PUnuth

These Rats Have Had Enough Of Each Other's BS In India, these rats have decided to handle their differences over some fists. November 25, 2018 at 02:00PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2zzryoL

Strange Experiments In Which Scientists Have Given Animals Recreational Drugs Octopuses on ecstasy, bee on cocaine and rats on oxycodone. November 22, 2018 at 10:15AM via Digg https://ift.tt/2r18if2

Dog Takes His First Steps In A Wheelchair And Into A New Chapter Of His Life Maximus' back was broken last summer. This is the first time he's been able to move on his own since the incident. November 21, 2018 at 08:42PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2TvVR7Q

I Lived Where Wild Turkeys Ruled the Town In Davis, California, wild turkeys are staging a comeback for the species, intimidating and taunting the humans whose ancestors slaughtered theirs. November 21, 2018 at 08:33PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2qYgVXC

Lions Go After Honey Badgers, Who Are Having Absolutely None Of It Remember the honey badger? As it turns out, they do not, in fact, give a crap. November 21, 2018 at 04:47PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2OTXWqM

Mama Black Bear Saves Her Two Cubs From The Clutches Of A Large Male Onlookers at Yellowstone National Park capture this gripping scene as it unfolds, with a mama bear making a mad dash to avoid a male black bear. Male black bears have been known to kill cubs in order to mate with females. November 21, 2018 at 03:19PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2R2VBM4

The Emotional Moment A Vlogger Returns To His Home Destroyed By Fire And Finds His Cat Alive In The Wreckage His family had to evacuate, abandoning their cat for seven days as the Woolsey Fire consumed their home in California. Thankfully, Mike the kitty is quite resilient. November 20, 2018 at 11:03PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2FvYPGH

Do Animals Grift Each Other? As it turns out, the ingeniousness and variety of griftmanship on display in the animal kingdom nearly rivals, and in some cases exceeds, our own. November 20, 2018 at 07:14PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2Dya12Q

Baby Rhino Comes Up With Clever Way To Get His Mom's Attention This is probably the rhino equivalent of babies' fake crying to get their parents' attention. November 20, 2018 at 03:24PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2Bn3B5d

Hey Look, It's A Camel Walking Around In A Pennsylvania Snow Storm They're not supposed to be there! What's going on?! This is crazy!! November 19, 2018 at 10:16PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2A5C3PP

Activist Pupper Passively Protests The End Of His Walk If anyone's going to end this walk, it's going to be him. November 19, 2018 at 06:12PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2BgUcfy

Guy Is Way Too Nonchalant About Petting A Wild Polar Bear This Arctic station worker gets to see these big boys all the time and is clearly very, very jaded. November 19, 2018 at 06:12PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2Kgk8dV

Um, Well, Here's A Raccoon Solving A Rubik's Cube He may not have the finest motor control, but Tito the raccoon knows how to solve one of the world's most popular puzzles. November 19, 2018 at 05:06PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2ORz8Qn

We Honestly Have No Idea If This Dog Is Angry Or Happy He's making the snarly face but he can't quite commit to it. November 19, 2018 at 02:00PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2FxBuUZ

Cat Comforts His Blind, Sick Friend Who Is Having A Crappy Day A place to rest your head and a good friend can make even the crappiest times feel a little more manageable. November 16, 2018 at 06:25PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2ONMnBr

How A Wanted Hacker Once Convinced Motorola To Give Him Their Source Code "I made a stupid and regrettable decision to go after the source code to the firmware that's in a MicroTAC Ultra Lite." November 16, 2018 at 04:19PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2zelX74

Beluga Dances As A Little Girl Holds Her Music Box Up To The Aquarium Glass This curious whale didn't know quite what to make of the mysterious twinkling sounds emanating through the glass, so it decided to just flop its fins about. November 15, 2018 at 10:51PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2Pvv1yA

Our Heaven Is This Cat's Personal Hell This tabby does not know what he did to deserve this bacchanal of kisses but, oh god, someone please save him. November 15, 2018 at 07:36PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2Fqp55k

This Sea Lion Is Legendarily Lazy After this male sea lion has chased off a rival, it takes the laziest path back to the water: literally just rolling down the hill. November 15, 2018 at 05:23PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2DnWRoY