In nowhere near it news, this is a video of two raccoons hopping up to try to reach the door latch of what appears to be a giant unadorned Hobbit-hole. Unfortunately for them, their little ineffectual jumps hardly bring them any closer to the latch than just standing there. One
This is a video of Balu and human Wolfgang Lauenburger setting the Guinness World Record for “most skips by a dog on hind legs in 30 seconds,” with a respectable quicker-than-one-a-second 32 jumps. Not too shabby. Wolfgang says he and Balu trained hard for the record, which I believe, because
Because there’s no telling what sort of thoughts exist inside a cat’s head besides death and destruction, this is a video of a woman making a giant cat toy by attaching strips of toilet paper to a ceiling fan to see how her cat friend will react. The cat repeatedly
This is a short video of three dogs jumping over a fence, with the first two easily clearing the obstacle and looking like show ponies in the process. The third dog, well…that would be me. Especially if it had toilet paper stuck to its shoe and could never find its
This is a short video of a man at some family fun center mistaking the padded floor of a basketball court for a trampoline, wrecking his back and knees in the process. Or maybe he just did it for the LOLs. Whatever the case, he just took twenty years off
This is a video of Tom Scott visiting the Montreal Olympic Sports Centre (built for the 1976 Summer Olympics), which features the only indoor 20-meter diving platform in North America. Apparently cliff diver Lysanne Richard convinced the Montreal Olympics Park to add an 18m platform in the rafters when the
These are several videos of a sugar glider named Titan Bool leaping from heights to glide and land on his owner’s hand. For those of you unfamiliar, sugar gliders are small gliding marsupials native to Australia, and can glide like flying squirrels (which are rodents and not related, but an
This is a video of a jumping jack style ground compactor hopping around on its own like Luxo Jr. at the beginning of Pixar movies. That’s cool. Of course if I was that guy in the video I’d be sticking my foot underneath it every time it jumped because I