This bear doesn’t seem to mind that his bubble bath is ice cold. He just likes the bubbles. Photographer Sergey Gorshkov took the photo in Kamchatka, eastern Russia, as part of a project he’s been working on for seven years following a group of bears.
Expect the unexpected. That’s the message from Chinese astrologers. This weekend launches the Year of the Dragon, one of 12 years in the Chinese zodiac calendar (we’re just ending a rabbit year).
Can anyone doubt that this crow is simply having a great time in the snow with his/her “snowboard”? This amateur video, shot from a high-rise window in Russia, speaks volumes about a crow’s inner life. That it is play is undeniable. And there’s much more: tool use, planning, the emotion of fun.
They’re becoming like the bears who “dance” for tourists on the streets of various Asian countries. The tourists think it’s all very cute … but like every other kind of exploitation, what goes on behind the scenes is horrific.
The tiny P. amanuensis lives in the New Guinea rainforest, makes a cricket-like sound, and, at about seven millimeters long, is the smallest vertebrate (animal with a backbone) known to scientists.
In Dorset, England, this 15-year-old feline shows up regularly at the bus station, sits under the shelter until his favorite bus arrives (the one that makes the round trip from Bridport to Charmouth), waits for the door to open, and hops aboard.
Look where the arrow is pointing. That’s not part of the octopus; that’s a black marble jawfish pretending to be part of the octopus since her coloring fits so well.
A lone octopus wends her way across the floor near a hydrothermal vent 7,800 feet below the surface of the Antarctic Ocean. She’s just one of thousands of sea creatures seen by humans for the first time when a team from Oxford University sent a remote camera down to visit them.
Young Frankie Pruitt was sitting at home drinking hot chocolate, one morning eight years ago, when Petunia the pit bull raced out of the house and across the meadows with the family’s other dogs to visit the alpacas on the family’s Virginia farm. It was all part of the daily routine. No one took any notice.
No, it’s not a statue; it’s a real bull, painted all over as part of a Chinese festival. The “tradition” arose among the Hani people as a way of protecting their homes from tigers. Today it’s an annual festival in which 48 times from China, Laos and Vietnam compete for the best painted bull.
Soon after she adopted Princess the poodle, things started going wrong for psychic artist and color therapist Olga Horvat. Her husband had a car crash and came down with an auto-immune disease. Her daughter got expelled from school for bad behavior. And the apartment got bed bugs. Then poor Princess fell down the stairs and died.
Here’s an interesting video from the documentary Animals Like Us. This sure looks like much the same thing as humans keeping dogs as pets.
Good news for fans of the Web’s favorite Porcupine. The super-talkative Teddy Bear, who was made virally famous last month with his super-possessive love of corn on the cob, is back with a pumpkin-size appetite.
Tommassino was a stray cat when Maria Assunta took him home. When she died last month at the age of 94, Assunta left him $15 million – the entire family fortune.
Please Buddah, help me to accept humans for what they are…
The giant weta can weigh nearly three ounces … more than a sparrow … more than three mice. This one is the largest ever recorded. She was pregnant (which explains the extra size), and was found on New Zealand’s Little Barrier Island
Bad luck or bad karma? Either way, the ducks at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge were safe from being shot last Sunday when the dog put a stop to the plans by shooting one of the hunters.
Alexander Tsiaras is an artist and technologist. His work explores the unseen human body, developing visualization software that enables him to “paint” the human anatomy.
Barton says he’s hoping to organize a full concert for the elephants at the Kanchanaburi reserve so that the sanctuary can receive a new electric fence.
This is what it should look like next August when Curiosity lands on Mars. It’s the largest E.T. vehicle ever, and will be looking for signs of life, past or present, including carbon molecules, methane gas, even genetic material from primitive life forms.