Because you can never have enough whimsy in your life, this is a video about UK-based photographer Simon Dell, who built an entire Hobbit village (among other homes) for the mice that live in his garden. How precious. Precious — get it? Because that’s what Gollum is always saying and

This is a video of Bonsai artist Bucky Barnes designing, pruning, carving and shaping a Japanese Larch bonsai tree over the course of a year. It’s a nice relaxing watch. Funnily, my girlfriend just got a bonsai as a work gift and we’ve only had it since last Friday and

Being living is tiring, this is some drone footage of a herd of Asian elephants taking a well-deserved nap while trekking across China. The video was captured by a group monitoring the elephants with a drone hovering at over 1,100-feet to ensure the elephants were not disturbed. Man, those elephants

This is a mind-blowing video of a kestrel hovering while surveying the ground for prey, keeping its head perfectly motionless while the rest of the body makes the necessary adjustments to keep it stationary in the wind. Insane, right? Per one Youtube commenter: “It’s like a gyroscope with feathers.” Or

Presumably in an attempt to destroy the One Ring on board, this is the footage from a DJI FPV flown by photographer/videographer Joey Helms as it says ‘Goodbye, Middle Earth’ and ‘Hello, Mount Doom’ in Geldingadalir, Iceland. Joey was able to save the footage thanks to his flight goggles recording

This is a compilation video from The Voyageurs Wolf Project of a wolf cub making an attempt at howling for the first time. (previously: attaching a collar camera to a wild wolf). It tries so hard it almost falls over after a good effort, but by the end it’s getting

This is a shot captured by southeast Michigan wildlife photographer Jocelyn Anderson (links to her website with prints available) of a red-winged blackbird catching a ride on a branch being carried by a much larger osprey. Obviously, Scooter from Borderlands is into this. Some more info: “Red-winged blackbirds are fiercely

These are several shots of what is believed to be a female Pacific Footballfish (I think I caught one of those in Animal Crossing!) that recently washed ashore in Crystal Cove, California. The fish normally lives at depths down to 3,000 feet, so it’s rare to ever see one at