Presumably inspired by the ease in which one can slip their foot into a Croc sandal (or possibly the Crocodile Mile I owned growing up), this is a short video captured by a Khurda district Indian Forest Service officer in one of the country’s national parks of a crocodile effortlessly
This is a video of African spurred tortoise (Centrochelys sulcata, aka sulcata tortoise) Princess Neferu rubbing herself on a custom made brush system at the Badger Run Wildlife Rehab center in Klamath Falls, Oregon. Some more info while I scratch my own back with my roommate’s toothbrush because he didn’t
This is a super short video of a turtle high-fiving an alligator. Honestly, the gator doesn’t seem too involved in the gesture, its hand just appears to have been in the right place at the right time. I’m also not sure if this technically qualifies as a high-five considering its
Because where there’s a will, there’s a way, Kobe University ecologist Shinji Sugiura has discovered a species of water beetle (Regimbartia attenuata) that, when eaten by a pond frog (Pelophylax nigromaculatus), will actually crawl through the frog’s intestinal tract and emerge from its anus, no worse for wear minus being
This is a short video from Thailand of two dogs barking at what appears to be a large Asian water monitor (not a Komodo dragon, but in the same Varanus genus) when the monitor tail-whips the dog on the left when the other is distracted licking its genitals to tell
This is a video from a kayaker paddling the upper Waccamaw River in North Carolina when a local alligator charges and rams him, briefly turning him over in the water. How he’s able to remain so calm is beyond me, because I would have been screaming and flailing until I
This is a video from outside a farm in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, of a massive anaconda lunging at a passing truck. Honestly, if I were that anaconda I would be less concerned with attacking passing vehicles and more concerned with that getting that lump on my
This is a short video of a paradise tree snake (Chrysopelea paradisi) with strips of reflective tape around its body launching itself off a tree branch and traveling some 30-feet horizontally while in the air, thanks to a complex series of undulations. Some more info while I undulate all sexy-like