158 juvenile giant tortoises were recently reintroduced to Floreana Island in Ecuador’s Galapagos archipelago, where the local subspecies went extinct in the 1840s thanks to being easy pickings for sailors on long voyages to keep fresh meat at sea. Those sailors are lucky the Ninja Turtles weren’t around back then.

This is a clip from BBC Studios of a beaver in Yellowstone National Park felling a cottonwood tree and building a dam with it. Apparently beavers can take down a tree like this in a few hours, and a single beaver can fell several hundred trees a year. It’s amazing

Sea otters hold hands while they sleep floating on their backs, an incredibly precious behavior known as rafting, so they don’t get separated while they’re napping. The behavior is particularly useful to young sea otters, who haven’t quite developed their sea legs yet and need to stay close to mom.

This is a short but delightful ASMR video of a Black and Rufous Sengi (aka elephant shrew) eating a flying insect at the Hertfordshire Zoo and looking too cute to compute the entire time, even if it does have bug hanging out of its mouth. Just look at that snout!

This is an entirely non-CGI video created by He Tongxue of HTX Studio featuring a piano keyboard attached to a tank filled with bioluminescent algae. As the piano is played it releases air bubbles, disturbing the algae and making them glow around the bubbles as they travel to the top.

This is a video from 4 Ever Green detailing some of the more exotic species of pigeons from around the world, birds that come in all sorts of wild color and pattern combinations. How about that! Personally, I think standard New York City pigeons are beautiful, but that’s just me

This is a video from photographer Vadim Makhorov, who used a drone to capture footage of a group of polar bears who have claimed the abandoned weather station on Koluchin Island (located in Russia’s remote Chukotka region) as their own. I say let them have it! Apparently the weather is

This is a video of a honey buzzard eating the larvae out of a beehive while all the bees panic and attack. The birds have specialized shield feathers around their faces to help prevent stings. This video reminds me a lot of myself while I’m eating the entire pumpkin pie