This is a video of a peach rumped monkey (not official name) attempting to use a smartphone that was dropped into the monkey pit at the San Diego Zoo. Hello, Rescue Rangers? Get me out of here! Just kidding, it was probably trying to order some hair-growth serum off Amazon

This is a video from a zoo where a buffalo cleverly uses one of its horns to right a turtle that found itself flipped on its back, presumably after trying to climb that tree. The buffalo then smiles at the visitors cheering it on, knowing its done its good deed

Because keeping your penguins enriched with playful activities is the key to their happiness (trust me, I’m a penguin whisperer), this is a video of a waddle (the name of a group of penguins on land, in the water they’re a raft) of Humboldt penguins at the Oregon Zoo having

This is a video of an orangutan at an Indonesian zoo trying on a pair of sunglasses that a woman accidentally dropped into its enclosure. It looks good! Like a Disney character. After a very abbreviated fashion week, the orangutan tries to throw the glasses back to the crowd, although

A friend in need is a friend indeed: it took me forever to understand what that actually means. It means a friend to you when you’re in need is a true friend. I’m not very bright. This is a video from a zoo of a giraffe removing a branch stuck

This is a video from the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston where recent mother Kiki the gorilla reacts to recent human mother Emmelina and her newborn. Emmelina has her five-week old son Canyon with her, and Kiki her newborn son Pablo. Kiki repeatedly tries to caress the human baby’s head

This is a video of a joey at the Nashville Zoo that was kicked out of its mom’s pouch and orphaned because 2020 has no limits in its cruelty, learning how to hop thanks to a surrogate human mother in a kangaroo onesie. So, uh, how does a person get

In other bird news, this is a video of penguins at the Newquay Zoo in Cornwall, England chasing bubbles blown from a bubble machine that was donated by someone. First of all, who donates a bubble machine? That’s something you keep until you die and then are buried with. Secondly,