This is a clip from BBC Studios of a beaver in Yellowstone National Park felling a cottonwood tree and building a dam with it. Apparently beavers can take down a tree like this in a few hours, and a single beaver can fell several hundred trees a year. It’s amazing
This is a video from China of a group of young martial artists performing a choreographed routine with little humanoid robots. Admittedly, I did like the part where the robots were flipping off of the springboard. I did not like the part where they were waving swords, even if the
Sea otters hold hands while they sleep floating on their backs, an incredibly precious behavior known as rafting, so they don’t get separated while they’re napping. The behavior is particularly useful to young sea otters, who haven’t quite developed their sea legs yet and need to stay close to mom.
Executively produced by Steven Spielberg and narrated by Morgan Freeman, The Dinosaurs is an upcoming documentary from Netflix detailing the rise and fall of everyone’s favorite prehistoric animals. Premiering March 6th, I did expect the computer graphics to be better. From the looks of things, we haven’t really progressed much
These are a couple videos of the ursine lovers of BEAR League helping evict a 550-pound bear that took up residence underneath a Altadena, California home. They’re pretty cavalier about the whole thing if you ask me, but that’s just me and I’m not getting in another bear fight. After
This is another work of internet mastery by Youtuber eli_handle_b.wav (seen previously), featuring The Office’s Michael Scott in Fallout 4. It’s pretty great. I’m rewatching the first season of Fallout now before watching the second season, but I wish I had the time and energy to go back and replay
These are a couple videos of musical duo Monen mit Melonen (translation: Monkeys with Melons) playing the same violin at the same time. That’s awesome. I’m not sure if this started as a money saving strategy or what, but if I had a dollar for every guitar I’ve smashed on
Because teamwork makes the dream work (at least according to the poster I’m forever staring at in HR), is a video of insect keeper Terra Green challenging his 1,000 worker ant colony with four increasingly difficult obstacles separating them from a food reward. The first obstacle is digging to find
