158 juvenile giant tortoises were recently reintroduced to Floreana Island in Ecuador’s Galapagos archipelago, where the local subspecies went extinct in the 1840s thanks to being easy pickings for sailors on long voyages to keep fresh meat at sea. Those sailors are lucky the Ninja Turtles weren’t around back then.
Because who doesn’t wish they were more feline (I’d love to just sleep all day and knock things off tables), these are several shots of the cat claw inspired nails crafted by Jane of 2hi4dis.nails, complete with fleshy quicks. She even provides a video tutorial (2nd video below) if you
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
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
This is a short but delightful ASMR video of a Black and Rufous Sengi (aka elephant shrew) eating a flying insect at the Hertfordshire Zoo and looking too cute to compute the entire time, even if it does have bug hanging out of its mouth. Just look at that snout!
In just the kind of news I like to hear, this is a video documenting the good work of 12-year old Roman McKonn, who’s helped rehome over 4,800 shelter dogs through transporting, fostering, and making videos with the dogs. Great job, Roman. He’s also very well spoken for a 12-year
This is a short video of a bengal cat that cows instead of meows. What a cutie! My cats meow. And sometimes they chitter at birds outside the window. Occasionally they’ll hack up some fur on the comforter. They don’t cow though. Neither do my dogs. My dogs do have