After reading this story you will understand how motherhood and loss are universal. Washoe, an exceptionally smart chimpanzee who knew sign language, was not happy with her caretaker Kat, who hadn’t visited for some time. However, when Kat told her that Washoe had recently lost her baby, Washoe indicated signs for grief. She even made… Read More
Via Mike Issac, here is a cute video of a squirrel stealing a GoPro, running off with it, trying to eat it, then returning it. Share this with others Have a great day! 🙂… Read More
After residents in Mentor, Ohio spotted a deer with its head stuck in a plastic pumpkin, they rallied together to free the poor animal who was unable to eat or drink. Officials with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources tried to help the allusive deer, but it was a quick-thinking teen who ultimately rescued the deer. With the deer’s… Read More
Hercules and the lions … a still from the video filmed in Zambia. Source: New York Post THIS is a video about the little guy taking on the pack. Except in this case the little guy is a big guy — a juvenile African elephant — and the pack is a pride of 14 hungry lions. The… Read More
I’m not quite sure you are ready for this level of cute. A baby otter, who was crying and alone, was found by a passerby on a California beach. She was taken to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, where it was determined she was only a week old, and had been away from her mother for… Read More
The world’s first solar bike lane is soon to be available for use in the Netherlands! The bike path that connects the Amsterdam suburbs of Krommenie and Wormerveer is a 70-meter stretch of solar-powered roadway set to open for the public on November 12th, 2014. The new solar road, which costs €3m (AUD$4.3m), was created as the… Read More
The majority of animals around the world are a shade of black, brown, yellow, or white. You don’t expect to see a sea of blue lobsters, or a flock of pink birds, unless you are hanging out with the flamingos of course. Certain animals are known for being certain colors. While a yellow frog looks strange because frogs are… Read More
A keystone species, by definition, has the power to largely effect entire ecosystems simply by performing natural behaviors for survival. Impressive? We’d say so. Many ecologists consider apex predators such as sharks, killer whales, and wolves to be keystone organisms, since they maintain balance of biodiversity and resource (e.g. food) availability. From the top to the bottom of the food chain, there are… Read More
This is the only lion in the world who plays soccer. His skills are second to none. Maybe we will see him at the next World Cup. Please Share With Family and Friends… Read More
Lil’ Drac is a little orphaned short-tailed bat. This little baby bat was very lucky as it got rescued by Weatherford, Texas Bat World Sanctuary. It is a no-profit organization dedicated towards the preservation of hundreds of bats. Bat World Sanctuary offers rehabilitation and release programs and even lifelong sanctuary programs to non releasable bats.… Read More
