This is a video captured by wildlife artist Robert E Fuller of a winter murmuration of starlings at dusk at the Ripon City Wetlands in Yorkshire, England (love your pudding!). Per Robert: “Starling murmurations are one of Britain’s greatest wildlife spectacles. Studies suggest the birds congregate in great swirling masses
This is a video of a woman tastefully adding googly eyes to a black rug to tie a room together and inviting us to play a game of “Can you find my black cat?” The cat opens its eyes and she zooms in on it, but I did NOT see
This is a short video of Josiah Ross’s adopted orange cat Philip reacting to Josiah leaving the apartment. Philip does not take it well, and as commenters pointed out, Josiah should probably get another cat to keep Philip company (the more the merrier, that’s my motto, but only up to
Because teamwork makes the dream work (or so I’ve heard — all my team projects in school usually failed and I got accusatory peer-evaluations), this is a short video of a group of turtles coming to the rescue of another that’s found itself floundering upside-down in a pond. Did Michelangelo
Seen here doing her best Fantastic Ms. Fox impression, this is a clip of Richmond Wildlife Center executive director Melissa Stanley nursing an orphaned baby fox while wearing a fox mask so that the animal feels safe and doesn’t imprint on humans. That way it can later be released back
This is some footage from a manned research submarine investigating the life around a methane seep off the coast of Costa Rica when it encountered a new species (Pectinereis strickrotti) of deep sea worm, that appear to swim almost as if they’re magic carpets. Freaky! Per submarine pilot Bruce Strickrott,
This is a visual comparison of increasingly larger fish, from the diminutive 1cm Paedocypris progenetica to the 30m blue whale. The video begins using a grasshopper for scale before moving to a bunny, and finally, humans. There are some big fish out there! Me? I’m neither the smallest nor the
This is a video compilation highlighting the work of artist LeopARTnik, who takes videos of birds doing things and adds stick arms and accessories, making the videos infinitely better. When I logged onto AOL this morning this is exactly what I was hoping to see. It’s pure perfection. There’s a