This is a video from the Brookfield Zoo Chicago of Adelaide, a 56-year old Tasmanian short-beaked echidna (aka spiny anteater) celebrating her birthday with a special cake made out of ground mealworms and chicken puree. Yum! I wonder if visitors got a slice, I’ll never say no to cake.

A partnership between Anchorage Solid Waste Services and the Alaska Zoo, this is a video of a group of Kodiak bears testing the bear-resistance of a new trash can. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the cans stand little chance against the massive 700+ pound bears. These aren’t those bears in the commercials that

This is a video of multi-species (including homo sapiens) chiropractor Dr. Joren Whitley providing an adjustment to a giraffe with a stiff neck to allow its jaw to move the right way to properly chew. Man, if Joren can work his magic on giraffe’s neck he must be a total

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

This is a video of several aging king penguins at the Cincinnati Zoo marching in one of their last public parades before retirement, when they will live out their golden years from the comfort of their habitat, and the zoo will discontinue the parades due to their age. Penguins Stacey,

This is a video of Steve the otter slipping under a fake rock and taking it for a trip in the water until he gets stuck under a tree branch and has to abandon his mobile hiding spot. So I guess Steve was a rock for Halloween this year. That’s

An annual tradition at the Oregon Zoo, this is a compilation of a number of different animals all enjoying some delicious pumpkin, straight from the jack-o-lantern’s head. it was a fun video to watch, and if raw pumpkin were as delicious as these animals make it seem, maybe I wouldn’t

This is a video from the Hitachi City Kamine Zoo in Japan of the staff practicing an escaped animal drill, with a man in a bear costume playing the role of escaped animal. I assume he’s supposed to be a bear, but the way he’s acting he could really be