This is a video from the Toba Aquarium in Toba, Japan of sea otter May being helpful and returning the cones in her pool to a caretaker while they clean. The dexterity she has with her hands, it’s so…humanlike. The activity is actually part of an enrichment exercise to keep

Because elephants are far more kind and considerate that humans, this is a video of a pachyderm deftly picking up and returning a child’s shoe that was dropped inside its enclosure at a Chinese zoo. How about that! It’s given some grass for its trouble, which I’m sure was much

After several emails expressing an annoyance with the ads between page loads (believe me, I get it), I’ve removed them all, as well as scaled back all advertising on the site, which means the site will now be making even less than it was before, which was already next to

This is a video of Mike the cat showing his owner Jim Young of Van Hollow Pottery how to properly shape a cup on the potter’s wheel. I assume Mike had sat around licking himself and watching Jim produce inferior cup after cup for long enough and finally decided to

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

This is a video from a family that was fishing on Marshmiller Lake (Marshmallow Lake’s less s’moresy cousin) in Wisconsin when they spotted a young bear swimming around with a plastic container stuck on its head. See? this is exactly why you have to properly dispose of your two gallon