These are a couple videos of a raven named Odin (of course) at the Tropical Butterfly House in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, producing abstract paintings, using her beak to pick up and use a brush. Admittedly, I wouldn’t mind having an Odin original hanging in my home. “That was painted

This is a video of 21-year old Dutchman Jarmo Slutter performing his winning seagull imitation at the European Gull Screeching Championship held in Adinkerke, Belgium. Admittedly, he does sound exactly like a bird. The costume certainly doesn’t hurt either. Next year I plan to win the competition with a cleverly

This is a visualization created by Global Data comparing the sizes of various flying creatures both extinct and extant, but mostly extinct because Mother Nature made all the wildest models back in the day. Don’t get wrong, she’s still got some pretty crazy designs in existence, but she’s definitely grown

Captured by wildlife photographer Mark Smith, this is a video of an osprey exiting the ocean carrying a barracuda and flapping its ways back into the sky, having emerged from the sea victorious. I can’t even imagine how much energy is required to get airborne again after leaving the water

This is a video of cockatoos that have learned to use multiple tools in order to receive rewards, in this case using a sharp stick to poke a hole through a membrane, then a long straw to retrieve cashew nuts. Apparently the ability to use toolsets has only previously been

These are several shots and a video of the removal of 700 pounds of acorns that a pair of acorn woodpecker stashed in the wall of a Santa Rosa, California home. Nick Castro of Nick’s Extreme Pest Control was actually inspecting for mealworms when he discovered the nut hoard, and

Captured by wildlife photographer Steve Biro, this shot of Bruce the Bald Eagle flying over the water directly at the camera is almost too perfect to believe it’s real. Such symmetry! And they way his wingtips are just brushing the water’s surface…so majestic. I mean except for that derpy look

Covered in actual poop from digging their nests in the meter-thick layer of bird crap on the cliffs of Peru (a result of the massive number of birds fishing offshore there), this is a video of a group of Humboldt penguins running across the backs of hundreds of sea lions