This is a video of 13-year old Layla retrieving the last bat of her career with the Clearwater Threshers (a Minor League affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies). Layla has retrieved bats for the team for the past six years, after her owner trained her to fetch beer from the fridge
This is a short video of a stone crab “stealing” diver Duran Roberts’s camera in The Bahamas and trying to make a run scuttle for it. It then attempts to fight Duran for the camera when he tries to take it back. But was the camera actually stolen, or did
This is the music video for Texas Toast Chainsaw Massacre’s ‘I Wanna Pet Your Dog’, their original thrash metal song. It’s a banger. But remember: you should always ask before petting a dog because some dogs don’t like strangers. This reminds me of a parable: A man approaches another man
This is a video of a pet umbrella cockatoo carefully listening to its owner’s very impressive beatboxing before it joins in the fray with some synchronized head bobbing and wing waving. Clearly, that bird knows how to party. The birds around here? They just try to dive-bomb my apartment windows
Gatsby, a rescue cat affectionately known as Galaxy Kitty (links to his Instagram with a million videos), is a tuxedo cat with vitiligo, an autoimmune disorder that causes patches of skin to lose their pigment, resulting in Gatsby’s galactic coloration. Gatsby and his sister (with normal coloration) were rescued together
This is ‘Nanoscapes’ a short video shot by Kristina Dutton featuring butterfly wings captured with an electron microscope at magnifications up to 50,000X. That’s some series magnification. Most of the time I wasn’t even sure what I was looking at. “Butterfly wings.” I like you, I really do, but you
This is a video of a striated frogfish (which looks like a character from Adventure Time) displaying its lure, a sort of natural fishing pole that can be extended from its “nose” and wiggle a very convincing worm-like appendage in front of it’s mouth to attract prey. Evolution is nuts.
Because nature is totally nuts, this is a video of a robotic spy fish infiltrating a millions-strong shoal of herring while they look for a place to lay and fertilize their eggs. The real fish constantly release flatulence from their swim bladders that sounds like clicking underwater, a behavior our