This is a video demonstration of how a roosting bat pees — by flipping to hang upright, opening the floodgates, then giving a good shake before returning upside-down. I didn’t expect the shake, but that’s smart — I imagine there’s nothing worse than dribbling urine in your face after a

This is a short video of somebody’s hamster doing the math with the help of a smartphone calculator app. Now I’m not entirely sure what it was calculating, but I suspect it had something to do with the revolutionary velocity of its hamster wheel. Really heady stuff. It looks like

This is a video of clever raven Gosha demonstrating his problem solving abilities in order to retrieve treats that are in the middle of a pipe too far to reach by beak. After realizing his short stick is too short to reach the treats, he uses it to push a

This is a short video from Youtuber Rescue & Restore, demonstrating the functionality of a 19th century candle snuffer, a device that automatically extinguishes a candle after it’s melted to a certain point. Pretty clever. And here I thought the only way to extinguish candles was to wait for the

Because life, uh, finds a way, this is a video of two chimps at a zoo using a fallen tree branch to retrieve an apple floating in a pond, too far to reach by hand. That’s some solid tool usage right there. I imagine most humans presented with the same

Because all work and no play makes Jack basically me, this is a video of a man dismounting a roof by using two long straight poles and a shovel under his ass to slide back down to the ground after finishing his work up there. Very clever. Although what I

This is a video of a clever tabby cat named Cheeto tricking its English mastiff brother Larry into a gated pen, then casually closing the gate and escaping through a gap in the bars, locking the big dog inside. Larry, you fool! You can forget about playing poker with the

This is a video of theoretical physicist Michio Kaku explaining string theory in just 60 seconds, which is unfortunately still 40-50 seconds longer than most people’s attention span. Did I learn something? Yes, but am I more confused now as a result? Also yes. That’s the price you pay for