These are several videos of French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s traveling museum exhibition ‘From Here To Ear’, which consists of a large room full of 70 zebra finches flying around and playing electric guitars as they perch and peck at the instruments’ strings and visitors walk around enjoying the impromptu jam
This is a video of a man who just docked on ‘Cat Island’ (actually Aoshima, an island in Japan’s Ehime Prefecture), and is immediately greeted by a number of the island’s feline inhabitants. Apparently the cats used to outnumber human residents on the island somewhere between 6:1 and 10:1, but
This is a video of two waddles of Rockhopper penguins meeting in the Falkland Islands, sharing a few choice words, then continuing on their own ways when one penguin gets mixed up with the other group and starts to leave with them. Thankfully, another member of his crew realizes they
This is a video of Captain Hamster the (you’ll never guess) hamster solving a series of very cleverly designed Portal themed test chambers constructed by his owner. Now that is a smart hamster, and he clearly has fantastic puzzle solving skills. Because personally, some of those challenge…well, let’s just say
In news that’s sure to set the paleontological world ablaze (like an asteroid!), an incredibly well preserved Psittacosaurus specimen was discovered in China, complete with cloacal vent — a hole shared by all the animal’s mechanisms responsible “for pooping, peeing, breeding and egg laying.” Kind of like if a mammal’s
This is a video from Admiralty Island in Alaska of a charging brown bear cruising past a group of hikers relaxing by a river, all of whom see incredibly calm about the situation and don’t violently pollute the river with their feces immediately. Keeping your calm like that — that’s
This is a video from Jaigaon, India of a honey buzzard going to town on a bee’s nest for some honey. So, if you were wondering whether the name honey buzzard is a misnomer, the answer is an unequivocal no. And that thing does not give a dang about those
Mother Nature: she can be breathtaking. Case in point: these starling murmurations (swarming behavior) above Geldermasen in the Netherlands filmed at dusk by nature photographer Marco Valk. Why do starlings do this? Let me copy/paste that for you while I wish I had friends to fly with: Grouping together offers