In what is hands-down the most British things I’ve seen in a while, this is a 1974 clip from BBC Nationwide of Michael Barrat interviewing snail aficionado Christopher Hudson and his beer-loving giant African snail, Boozy. Honestly, I thought it was a Monty Python skit at first, and I’m still
This is a video of artist Bobby Duke carving a pencil into a snake wrapped around its graphite center, slithering towards a mouse atop the eraser. The result is pretty impressive. Not to brag or anything, but I’ve done a little bit of pencil carving myself. Unfortunately, by the time
This is some footage from a beaver pond in Minnesota of the same mama bear and her three cups repeatedly wandering by trail cams set up by the Voyageurs Wolf Project and giving them a good what-for, letting humans know they are NOT the bears from those Charmin commercials and
Captured by Romanian photographer Stef Stanciu, this is a video of a family of endangered Alpine chamois (goat-antelopes) speeding down a mountain (possibly trying to escape the drone chasing them), traversing several rocky cliffs in the process. Man, those goatelopes have some SURE FOOTING. Me? I can’t even walk along
This is a video of a group of skittish squirrels (aren’t they all?) outside the window of appropriately named Youtuber Squirrels at the Window being treated to a fancy charcuterie board covered with various nuts and fruit. That looks nice, although I would be disappointed if I just paid $28
This is some footage from a typical morning at a bird feeder located in Nuevo Arenal, Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Visitors include “collared Aracari Toucans, several kinds of woodpeckers, Oropendula, Palm Tanagers, Blue/Gray Tanagers, Baltimore Orioles, Clay-colored Thrush (the national bird of Costa Rica), Red-legged Honeycreepers, Black-Cowled Oriole, Euphonias, a few
This is a video of Otis the tamandua anteater at the San Diego Zoo showing off his 16-inch tongue as he grabs some grubs at the bottom of a giant clear straw. Damn, that tongue is wild. Could you imagine if you had a tongue like that? I can’t. I
This is a video of a man who was pulled over in Norfolk, Nebraska, with a Watusi bull named Howdy Doody riding shotgun in a former police-use Crown Victoria, which had been modified to accommodate the beast for Nebraska’s BIG RODEO Parade, where it was awarded best car entry and