ANIMAL INDEX

Siegfried & Roy's Animal Handler Breaks Silence on Mauling, Alleges Cover-Up Chris Lawrence was onstage when a white tiger viciously attacked Roy Horn in 2003 during their Las Vegas show. Now, after a 15-year battle with PTSD, Lawrence is finally ready to discuss the human error that triggered the incident. March 29, 2019 at 07:57PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2YDjD4H

Here's A Stampede Of Baby Goats To Brighten Your Day This cavalcade of little ones is the exact opposite of menacing. March 29, 2019 at 04:54PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2OxhTVP

Every Living Creature When a massive Caribbean volcano erupted in 1997, the island's residents fled, leaving their beloved animals behind. As pets and livestock were engulfed in ash and penned in by lava, waiting to perish, three brave souls risked death and evaded the law to save every last one. A modern-day Noah's Ark. March 29, 2019 at 12:10PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2FEdH2l

The Way This Six-Eyed Sand Spider Hides Is Fascinating It's one of the most venomous spiders out there, but that doesn't mean it's a slouch at playing hide-and-seek. March 28, 2019 at 02:15PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2Fz3pkb

Two Women Have Priceless Reaction To A Squirrel Hiding In The Vent To be fair, their fear is justified as squirrels are known to be big, nasty, murderous creatures that will hunt you down in your house. March 27, 2019 at 08:33PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2CHyul7

Goat Has The Best Sense Of Balance Of Anything We've Ever Seen The goat, named aptly "Handstand," was born with a leg deformity and was later rescued by ranch owners. March 27, 2019 at 04:25PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2FGj8PF

‘Dog Suicide Bridge’: Why Do So Many Pets Keep Leaping Into a Scottish Gorge? Residents of Dumbarton, which is northwest of Glasgow, began calling Overtoun, a century-old bridge that stretches across a 50-foot gorge, the "dog suicide bridge." March 27, 2019 at 04:21PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2uwSWR2

Baby Raccoon Can't Climb Up The Wall, So Mama Raccoon Comes To The Rescue In The Most Unexpected Way Sometimes it takes a whole family to save a little brother. March 27, 2019 at 02:12PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2U1w636

All The Times Science And Pop Culture Tried To Make The T. Rex Less Badass The Tyrannosaurus rex was officially discovered in 1902, and for the first 90 years of its known existence, the T. rex's stature as king would go pretty much unchallenged. March 27, 2019 at 11:50AM via Digg https://ift.tt/2FDGPbu

Snake Hitches A Ride On The Hood Of A Family Car Sometimes you just wanna live free and feel the wind beneath your scales. March 26, 2019 at 06:23PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2V2VLoV

Goose Figures Out A Clever Way To Save Her Chicks From A Leopard By feigning an injured wing, the mother goose convinced the leopard to chase her — rather than her vulnerable chicks. March 26, 2019 at 06:21PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2FtRJz7

Dog Breeds Are Mere Victorian Confections, Neither Pure Nor Ancient The evolution of the domestic dog goes back tens of thousands of years — however, the multiple forms we see today are just 150 years old. March 25, 2019 at 04:52PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2FqFGme

Bison Is So Freakin' Amped Spring Has Arrived This resident of the North Carolina Zoo celebrates warmer temperatures, happy jumping and face nuzzling with the earth. March 22, 2019 at 06:30PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2Ok8YXD

This Weird Lion Falls Head Over Heels For Every Car He Meets This confused lion loves to clean, prune and protect vehicles — behavior usually reserved for members of the animal's pride. March 22, 2019 at 06:30PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2UO0KcI

Octopus Sees Free Diver, Immediately Turns The Color Of The Ocean Floor "You think you've seen me? Well, try again." March 22, 2019 at 05:02PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2UORkxR

People Think They've Found A Bunny Hiding In There Trash, Get An Unpleasant Surprise Instead "It's a bunny!" she exclaimed as the squirrel leapt for her face. March 22, 2019 at 03:51PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2U86Asc

Construction Worker Rescues A Cuckoo Bird Trapped In A 250-Foot High Crane A kindhearted construction worker noticed this bird flapping around, unable to escape the tall tower crane. The do-gooder then scurried his way up the narrow space to catch the animal with his bare hands, calming it down and releasing it. March 22, 2019 at 03:24PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2Ooj5uI

Horse Racing's Rampant Problem Leaves Sport With More Questions Than Answers The horse deaths at Santa Anita, and the subsequent rule changes, have roiled the sport, creating an uncertain future in an industry that employs many thousands of people. March 22, 2019 at 11:55AM via Digg https://ift.tt/2FoqlSZ

Man Walks Leashed Steer Into A Petco To Test The Limits Of Its Pet Policy Petco claims that "all leashed pets are welcome in our stores." Two residents of Humble, Texas decided to find out whether that was really true. March 21, 2019 at 07:31PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2HxUkLR

This Lion Pride Fight Is Metal As Hell It all started when a few male lions began threatening females and their cubs, something the females certainly were not going to put up with. March 20, 2019 at 07:33PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2WexITX

Iguanas Scare The Living Daylight Out Of Some Tourists Two feuding iguanas decide to take their fight into a neighboring hotel pool, with glorious results. March 20, 2019 at 06:13PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2ujWnKN

Homeowners Call Police To Investigate A Home Invasion, Things Don't Turn Out At All As Expected "I'm just a moose standing in front of a human asking for a better habitat." March 20, 2019 at 03:59PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2Wc9Sbt

Very Vocal Parrot Tells Barking Dog To Shut Up This interspecies quarrel is not one we'd expect, but it's one we need. March 20, 2019 at 02:04PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2Fp6l44

Man Leaves His Car Doors Open, Returns To Find A Hot Koala Trying To Cool Down Ah, yes, a car koala in its natural habitat, wrecking dashboards and not understanding how windows work. March 20, 2019 at 12:31AM via Digg https://ift.tt/2HtCKIV

Yup, Just A Dog Taking Its Horse For A Walk Tired of walking your dog? Why not just give him the reins and add in a horse there for good measure? March 19, 2019 at 04:27PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2TiAsxQ

David Attenborough Narrates 'Our Planet', The Next Great Nature Series To Get Baked To "Our Planet" comes to your buddy's couch on April 5. March 19, 2019 at 02:20PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2Fm2ioW

There's Something Deeply Magical About How Much This Turtle Enjoys Being Washed Let's make sure we get that shell all shiny and clean. March 19, 2019 at 11:56AM via Digg https://ift.tt/2Fmz1uw

This Songbird Is Nearly Extinct In The Wild. An International Treaty Could Help Save It — But Won't Over a quarter of the species threatened by commercial trade are not protected by Cites, the global agreement intended to save them. March 18, 2019 at 12:54AM via Digg https://ift.tt/2Fj14uH

Why Are There So Many Bats At Spurs Games? The flying mammals seem to have become season-ticket holders. March 16, 2019 at 08:56PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2W5KaWb

Horse Gets Half-Buried In Blizzard, Is Very, Very Gently Dug Out By An Excavator This takes a lot of skill on the part of the excavator operator and a lot of trust on the part of the poor horse. March 15, 2019 at 08:01PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2Y04dH9

Well, Hello There, Extremely Funny-Looking Eel We mean no disrespect, of course, but it's really hard to take you seriously when you're looking at us like that. March 15, 2019 at 04:37PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2TH0RdM

Big Brown Bear Just Wants Owner To Stop Hogging His Sofa And he'll do everything within his power to get this sofa-stealing human off his turf. March 15, 2019 at 02:36PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2JeegFb

Koala Goes All In, Takes A Mighty Leap From Roof To Tree Branch You can do it, buddy, you can do– ah well. March 14, 2019 at 10:05PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2TPwAJ0

Why Animal Rights Is The Next Frontier For The Left As the left hardens its commitment to fighting climate change, social injustice and rampant capitalism, the question of what to do about animals will become inescapable. March 14, 2019 at 08:12PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2HCHYBz

Chickens 'Gang Up' To Kill Intruder Fox On French Farm "There was a herd instinct and they attacked him with their beaks," said Pascal Daniel, head of farming at the agricultural school Gros-Chêne. March 14, 2019 at 07:06PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2Cig9ek

Welcome to Birdpunk: A Subculture of a Subculture Punk has always been about embracing different forms of expression. Meet the people who are putting birding on that spectrum. March 14, 2019 at 05:03PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2TI0VJq

Wild Elephant Herd Charges At A Pack Of Wild Dogs To Protect Their Babies Safari Guide Brent Leo-Smith captured this stunning animal stand-off in the Djuma Private Game Reserve in Sabi Sands, South Africa. March 14, 2019 at 04:25PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2UzUNQt

Eagle Picks Up A Golfball And Plops It Into The Hole To Secure A Guy A Hole In One We don't care what the rules say, the universe wants this man to have his damn hole in one. March 14, 2019 at 03:33PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2TKk3GO

This Is A Truly Lousy Experiment About Evolution By placing feather-eating lice onto differently colored birds, researchers showed how the parasites change color to better blend in. March 14, 2019 at 11:50AM via Digg https://ift.tt/2Huq5og

A Big Lynx And A Small Cat Cuddle And Doze Two felines dream of fish and forge a beautiful, new friendship. March 13, 2019 at 06:31PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2O1uSil

This Is Why You Should Not Let Your Cat Go Exploring Inside Your Coat ​Though, to be fair, the cat doesn't look particularly perturbed by the situation. March 11, 2019 at 05:13PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2J5J62E

These Manatees Can't Hide Their Curiosity Towards A See-Through Canoe These are the standard procedures of underwater investigation: if you don't recognize something, stare at it for a very long time and then go ahead and bump it. March 9, 2019 at 09:02PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2tZO9rf

It's Almost Magical Watching This Octopus Disappear Into A Seabed Not liking being in the literal spotlight, this octopus decided to bury itself deep into the depths of this sandy seabed. March 8, 2019 at 06:45PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2UseEBc

Guy Films Seagull, Things Take A Turn For The Worse A tourist in Mossel Bay in South Africa got some cool up-close footage of a seagull. A bit too close, in fact. March 8, 2019 at 05:25PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2Hl9Nhy

Paraglider Lands, Immediately Gets Attacked By A Kangaroo The best part of this is the jovial tone with which the Aussie greets the 'roo, before telling it to "f*ck off." March 8, 2019 at 01:08PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2SNntE5

We Are Destroying Chimpanzee Cultures By fragmenting forests and killing off individuals, humans are stopping the flow of ideas among our closest relatives. March 8, 2019 at 02:19AM via Digg https://ift.tt/2H6pDgA

Snail Has A Ball Playing With Baby Carrot Instead Of Eating It Why would anyone eat a carrot when they could just swivel it around and have a swingin' good time. March 7, 2019 at 01:06PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2ETcuVW

Why Parrots Can Talk Like Humans But Monkeys Can't Birds are seemingly a lot less like humans than monkeys are, and yet they can sound a whole lot more like us. What gives? March 6, 2019 at 07:05PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2TAVDPN

Here's A Parrot Casually Riding A Tricycle Sometimes Polly has to take matters into her own hands when she wants a cracker. March 6, 2019 at 04:47PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2C6BuY3

Zoo Installs Camera In Snow Leopard's Enclosure, And Boy, The Leopard Was Not Prepared A snow leopard at Paradise Wildlife Park in the UK got one heck of a fright when it spotted a newly-installed camera. March 6, 2019 at 04:19PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2VHqRCm