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

This is a video of Steve the otter slipping under a fake rock and taking it for a trip in the water until he gets stuck under a tree branch and has to abandon his mobile hiding spot. So I guess Steve was a rock for Halloween this year. That’s

This is a video of British Columbia, Canadian Shaydon Soucy helping a moose that appears to have had one too many witch’s brews at the Halloween party and gotten itself caught up in the decorations. Been there before, Bullwinkle! “As soon as it saw me walk over to the fence,

In words I never thought I’d type news, this is a video of a robotic spy mudskipper infiltrating the mating ritual of the amphibious fish to catch the action up close and personal. Ahooga! The ritual begins with some flag (fin) raising displays, proceeds to a jumping (flopping) contest, and

This is a video from the Toba Aquarium in Toba, Japan of sea otter May being helpful and returning the cones in her pool to a caretaker while they clean. The dexterity she has with her hands, it’s so…humanlike. The activity is actually part of an enrichment exercise to keep

This is a video from Gatlinburg, Tennessee, of a bear discovering a backyard grill currently in use cooking some burgers, and helping itself to all ten of them. I can’t tell if that grill is really flimsy or if that bear is really strong, but the way the grill sways