This is a video of a squirrel leading a woman by the finger to show her its nest up in a tree. I’m not sure what their relationship is, but there’s clearly something there (especially considering there was already a ladder in the tree). Maybe she rescued it before releasing
Note: Image above has no frog, scroll down for the full image, I didn’t want to make it too easy with a crop. This is a photo of a tree with a well camouflaged frog hiding in plain sight. Can you spot it? I spotted it almost immediately, but I’m
This is a clip of a real life roadrunner vocalizing. Shockingly, it does not make the ‘Meep meep!’ we’ve all come to expect from watching cartoons. It’s more of a really quick clicking. Great, now what else have cartoons been lying to us about?! Next thing you know we’ll find
This is a video captured by wildlife artist Robert E Fuller of a winter murmuration of starlings at dusk at the Ripon City Wetlands in Yorkshire, England (love your pudding!). Per Robert: “Starling murmurations are one of Britain’s greatest wildlife spectacles. Studies suggest the birds congregate in great swirling masses
This is a clip from the Sir David Attenborough series Frozen Planet II highlighting the life of the world’s most northern-living turtle, the painted turtle. The turtles actually freeze in the winter and their hearts stop beating (leaving only their brains operating at bare minimum), but defrost and comes back
Seen here doing her best Fantastic Ms. Fox impression, this is a clip of Richmond Wildlife Center executive director Melissa Stanley nursing an orphaned baby fox while wearing a fox mask so that the animal feels safe and doesn’t imprint on humans. That way it can later be released back
This is some footage from a manned research submarine investigating the life around a methane seep off the coast of Costa Rica when it encountered a new species (Pectinereis strickrotti) of deep sea worm, that appear to swim almost as if they’re magic carpets. Freaky! Per submarine pilot Bruce Strickrott,
This is a compilation of jump cuts created by bug lover and Instagram user bughaus_adi of insect eggs, and the full grown insects that they develop into. There is also a series of juvenile insects vs adult insects. Those orchid mantises are wild. That spider too. I did warn you