Cockatoos Learn To Use Multiple Tools To Reach Goal
This is a video of cockatoos that have learned to use multiple tools in order to receive rewards, in this case using a sharp stick to poke a hole through a membrane, then a long straw to retrieve cashew nuts. Apparently the ability to use toolsets has only previously been
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Cats Reenact The Lyrics To Songs
Instagram user catmusicvideos creates just that: music videos featuring photos and videos of cats reenacting the lyrics to songs. They’re surprisingly well made, and this might very well prove to be the pinnacle of internet achievement. It’s all downhill from here. This is the finest, most pure, most…dammit, I lost
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Side-By-Side Comparison Of Lighting A Lighter At Different Speeds Of Slow Motion
This is a side-by-side-by-side-by-side comparison of a cigarette lighter being lit, shot using four different Phantom highspeed cameras, capturing the action at 3,200FPS, 5,300FPS, 8,300FPS, and Matrix-speed 28,500FPS. That 28,500FPS footage doesn’t even look real. *touching earpiece* I’m being told it is though. “Who was that?” My fact-checker. “Wait —
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Horse-Headed Drummer Playing Bucket In Bathtub Goes Hard On 10 Drum Intros
Because I stopped trying to understand the internet a long time ago (I just work here with my head down), this is a video of Buckets the Drummer going unnecessarily hard on 10 drum intros while wearing a horse mask and performing on a bucket in the bathtub, usually with
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Finally, The Flying Robotic Spiders Nobody Asked For
Because nothing quite screams robot apocalypse like a flying robotic spider, researchers at the University of Tokyo’s robotics department have developed just that, in the form of SPIDAR. What does SPIDAR stand for? Why ‘SPherIcally vectorable and Distributed rotors assisted Air-ground amphibious quadruped Robot’ of course! Jeez, use your brain.
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Opposite Day!: Sheep Herds Border Collie
Because role-playing is fun, this is a video of a Dutch spotted sheep who resides at the Yew Tree Farm School in Sittingbourne, England pretending it’s a dog-sheep and herding the sheep-dog border collie that would normally be herding it. Hoho, role reversal! That’s fun. Like sometimes at work I
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Ring That Looks Like An Extra Finger
Because soon the day will come when everything that shouldn’t exist, does, this is the FINGERring from artist Nadja Buttendorf: a ring that looks like a realistic finger. The bonus finger is made from silicone, and was designed to be cast in a color that matches its wearer’s skintone for
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Skipping Bullets Across Water In Ultra Slow Motion
This is a video of the Slow-Mo guys attempting to skip bullets across the water in an aquarium like stones across a pond. That’s cool. Maybe not as cool as my stone-skipping skills, but with the perfect rock I can get three or four bounces sometimes. Without the perfect rock
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