In a clear case of Mother Nature needing to pump the damn brakes, this is a video of a sea slug head crawling around after recent self-decapitation to rid itself of parasites in the rest of its body. The head will eventually grow an all new body. Aliens: they are

This is a video of nature lover and wildlife rehabilitator Robert Fuller of Yorkshire, UK documenting the process of rescuing Whisper, a helpless baby stoat that was abandoned by her mother, and rehabilitating her for rerelease into the wild. Along the way Robert rescues another baby stoat, Stuart, so the

This is a video of two Canadian geese protecting their goslings from a hawk attack. When the hawk comes in hot one goes low to cover the babies with its wings, while the other takes to the air to meet the hawk in aerial combat. Honestly, I thought one was

This is a video of Sally the (silly) goose chasing a goat away from her friend Rose the Great Pyrenees, because that’s what friends are for. Except for my friends. My friends are apparently for coordinating their exit and leaving me with a hefty bar tab. “Our new goose Sally

These are several shots captured by Belgian nature photographer Yves Adams in the South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands of a rare leucistic king penguin. Leucism is similar to albinism, but results in only a partial reduction in melanin and other pigments, not total. There are a few more shots

This is a video of cat Alexis and human Anika of Austria setting the Guinness World Record for most cat tricks in one minute, with a very respectable 26 (although whether some of these should qualify as tricks remains highly debatable — e.g. ‘look left’). Anika adopted Alexis when he

This is a video from Lake Tahoe in California of a black bear walking on the frozen lake, the ice cracking and breaking, the bear falling through, then the bear successfully pulling itself out of the water and making its way back to land because it didn’t panic. That’s always

This is some drone footage from St Petersburg, Florida where a group of as many as 170 manatees were spotted, with some jumping dolphins thrown in the mix for good measure. What is going on here? And why wasn’t I invited to the party? I can swim. Not very well