This is a video from Festo (not be confused with Fisto, the Protectron robot found in Fallout: New Vegas that you can mod into a pleasure bot) of their latest generation of BionicSwifts, robotic birds that fly using the same mechanics as real birds. According to Festo, the latest BionicSwifts
This is a “Flaminrose”, a flamingo inspired prosthetic leg for wine glasses with broken stems. It was created by neverita design as part of their ‘Emergency Aid’ project, which “aims to transform broken and unusable objects into creative products.” Man, where have these been my entire relationship? I swear, if
In a case of life imitating life, this is a photo and video captured by photographer James Crombie of a murmuration of starlings creating the shape of a giant bird. How about that! Does it only look like a bird from this angle, or would it look like a bird’s
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 beautiful, surprisingly low-definition video (did they text the video to Youtube and it got compressed? And does the lower quality make the shapes even more mesmerizing?) Per one particularly insightful Youtube commenter: “It would be cool it they took the shape of other animals like a rabbit
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
Because the internet can occasionally produce just what you were looking for provided you don’t know what that thing was and don’t wander down the wrong alley trying to take a shortcut *desperately trying to close relentless boner pill pop-up* this a short video from artist LeopARTnik of two black-capped
