This is a video of two waddles of Rockhopper penguins meeting in the Falkland Islands, sharing a few choice words, then continuing on their own ways when one penguin gets mixed up with the other group and starts to leave with them. Thankfully, another member of his crew realizes they
This is a video from Admiralty Island in Alaska of a charging brown bear cruising past a group of hikers relaxing by a river, all of whom see incredibly calm about the situation and don’t violently pollute the river with their feces immediately. Keeping your calm like that — that’s
This is a video from Jaigaon, India of a honey buzzard going to town on a bee’s nest for some honey. So, if you were wondering whether the name honey buzzard is a misnomer, the answer is an unequivocal no. And that thing does not give a dang about those
Mother Nature: she can be breathtaking. Case in point: these starling murmurations (swarming behavior) above Geldermasen in the Netherlands filmed at dusk by nature photographer Marco Valk. Why do starlings do this? Let me copy/paste that for you while I wish I had friends to fly with: Grouping together offers
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 from the great outdoors of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, of a beaver gnawing through a freshly downed poplar limb in a cool 45 seconds before tossing it over his shoulder to go start construction on the new game room of his dam. Impressive! Of course if trees
Bats: they’re humanity’s closest flying relatives. Is that true? I have no clue, I just run my mouth trying to sound convincing until somebody tells me to shut it, threatens to punch me, or punches me. This is a video from BBC Two of bats flying in both slow motion
Pandora: it’s right here on earth. “You’re talking about the jewelry store that sells the charm bracelets.” Exactly, my girlfriend loves those baubles. This is a video captured by photographer and videographer Raymond K. of the bioluminescent algae (aka sea sparkle) in the Wadden Sea off the coast of Terschelling