A friend in need is a friend indeed: it took me forever to understand what that actually means. It means a friend to you when you’re in need is a true friend. I’m not very bright. This is a video from a zoo of a giraffe removing a branch stuck

Because maybe there really is such a thing as a free lunch, this is a video of a lion at a drive-through safari experience in South Africa casually opening a car door with its mouth. For reference, I don’t open any kinds of doors with my mouth, but I can

This is a video of a pet pig repeatedly unplugging a vacuum that its owner is trying to use. And can you blame it? I used to have an upstairs apartment neighbor that would vacuum his apartment every Saturday morning at 7AM like clockwork. I say I used to because,

This is a compilation video from The Voyageurs Wolf Project of a wolf cub making an attempt at howling for the first time. (previously: attaching a collar camera to a wild wolf). It tries so hard it almost falls over after a good effort, but by the end it’s getting

This is a shot captured by southeast Michigan wildlife photographer Jocelyn Anderson (links to her website with prints available) of a red-winged blackbird catching a ride on a branch being carried by a much larger osprey. Obviously, Scooter from Borderlands is into this. Some more info: “Red-winged blackbirds are fiercely

This is a video of Bradenton, Florida delivery driver Robert Acton rescuing ten raccoons stuck in a dumpster that he discovered while making a delivery to a nearby business. Robert says he “heard a rustling noise coming from the dumpster” (which in Florida could mean absolutely anything), and discovered the

This is a video from the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston where recent mother Kiki the gorilla reacts to recent human mother Emmelina and her newborn. Emmelina has her five-week old son Canyon with her, and Kiki her newborn son Pablo. Kiki repeatedly tries to caress the human baby’s head

This is a video of a seagull entering, stealing a sandwich from, then exiting a Co-Op Food grocery store in Aberdeen, Scotland, scaring away one customer and out-maneuvering a would-be crime-stopper with a red umbrella in the process. Per the person filming while I try to train a pigeon to