This is a comparison video from Red Side (previously), this time comparing the top speeds of various species of birds (whether walking or running). It begins with the slow 2.4MPH march of the penguin, and works its way all the way up to 242MPH dive of the peregrine falcon. Damn,
This is a video of a safari driver quickly reversing for almost a whole minute to avoid a charging rhino in Africa. Did you know rhinos can hit speeds in excess of 30MPH at full speed? Thank goodness that road was fairly straight. Me? I would have almost certainly backed
Nature: it never ceases to amaze. This is a clip from the BBC’s ‘Life Story’ narrated by David Attenborough featuring the courtship practices of a flame bowerbird in Papua, New Guinea. Wow, it looks like a phoenix that’s risen from the ashes! How could you not be impressed? After first
Named for famed British naturalist and personal hero David Attenborough, this is a picture of Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus attenboroughi), snapped by a camera trap during an expedition in the Cyclops Mountains in Indonesia’s Papua Province. It is the first time since 1961 that scientists have managed to spot the
Tired of the same old cold cut sandwiches pilfered from picnic baskets, this is a video of Yogi Bear stealing a family’s $45 Uber Eats Taco Bell delivery from their front porch in Orlando, Florida. Was there a Mexican Pizza in that bag? I should certainly hope so! And two
Captured by nature photographer Fernando Maidana, this is a video of a capybara (a giant rodent, like my previous roommate turned out to be) smoothly running across the bottom of a river at the Recanto Ecológico Rio da Prata in Jardim in Brazil. I assume it opted for the underwater
In other shaking animal news, this is a video of a dog who starts shaking her butt as soon as the beat drops in Sir-Mix-A-Lot’s 1992 banger ‘Baby Got Back’. If I were you, I would consider this the pinnacle of the internet for the day and not look at
This is a video from New Yorker Carly Hittner, who spotted a rat carrying an entire uneaten donut down the subway tracks to a waiting friend so they could share a meal. How sweet is that? Per Carly: donut rat treats his woman better than half you other rats in