If you find a snake in your yard, most people would just kill the snake. In Texas, they just burn down their house.
Mar 212013
Mar 202013
Loca the pug is at it again and this time she is telling us how she feels about a trip to the vet.
Mar 182013
Russian brown bears love to play with discarded aviation fuel barrels because it gets them high. The bears sniff the fuel until they pass out. Some bears will even dig a hole in a spot next to the strongest smell and lay in it enjoying the high. The containers, located in the Kronotsky Nature [...More...]
Dec 192012
We don't know really know what is going on with this pigeon, which crashed Sunday's Chiefs-Raiders game by landing right in the middle of the action and absolutely refusing to care about the 22 large men that were stomping around it. Maybe the pigeon was sick and disoriented, or wounded and unable to fly away? [...More...]
Dec 192012
Myna birds, native to Southeast Asia, are prized for their ability to repeat human phrases. In a zoo in Hubei, China, one such bird was known to spout off courteous, friendly sayings to visitors: things like “hello,” “good fortune,” and "goodbye". According to China Daily, sometimes it “even sang a song.” But then the unthinkable [...More...]
Nov 102012
The two-foot-long shark seemingly fell to Earth and began thrashing about on the tee box at San Juan Hills Golf Club in southern California. Amazingly, the creature managed to survive the fall. 'It was just wriggling around,' said the Melissa McCormack, director of the golf club's operations. 'Honestly, this is the weirdest thing that's [...More...]
Nov 092012
Like Willie the Whale, the opera-singing star of Disney’s 1946 cartoon, the mammal could mimic human sounds – but he appeared to have a short temper. A diver who once entered his enclosure surfaced soon after to ask bemused colleagues: ‘Who told me to get out?’ Noc spent 30 years among dolphins and other [...More...]
Nov 082012
Elephants are well known for their intelligence, sociability and outstanding powers of memory. Until now, however, nobody expected one to speak. But say hello to Koshik… and he will say hello back. Koshik, who talks by putting his trunk in his mouth, was recorded at a zoo imitating human speech. He can say five [...More...]
Nov 072012
A herd of elephants downed more than 500 liters of moonshine alcohol, drinking all of it in a matter of minutes. The unruly elephants then demolished dozens of houses, ransacked a shop and ruined crops in an eastern village of Dumurkota, India, in a desperate hunt for more booze. Local police officer Asish Samanat [...More...]
Oct 042012
The mystery of French bees making colored honey has been solved after finding an M&M waste plant nearby. Beekeepers in France were confused after their bees produced honey in mysterious shades of blue and green. But now the mystery has been solved as it is now believed residue from containers of M&M's candy processed [...More...]
Sep 162012
New cockroach behavior discovered by University of California, Berkeley, biologists secures the insect's reputation as one of nature's top escape artists, able to skitter away and disappear from sight before any human can swat it. In addition to its lightning speed, quick maneuvers and ability to squeeze through the tiniest cracks, the cockroach also can [...More...]
Sep 132012
When Lorcan Dillon uttered the words ‘I love you’, for the first time, his mother Jayne was excited. ‘I was so moved, but I had to hold myself in check,’ she says. ‘No matter how excited I felt, I didn’t want him to realise just how important it was for me to hear those [...More...]
Jul 242012
This is the astonishing moment a Great White shark jumps out of the sea to catch its prey. Nature's ultimate killing machine is captured on film chomping down on its prey, a cape fur seal. British photographer Dan Callister traveled to Seal Island near Cape Town, South Africa to photograph the spectable. Speaking shortly [...More...]
Jul 242012
A postal worker has had trouble completing his mail route because he keeps getting attacked by falcons. Ron Eudy, of Abilene, Texas, has been attacked by a group of falcons every day for the past two weeks while he tries to deliver mail along his designated route. The birds appear to be specifically attacking [...More...]
Jul 232012
A nosy gopher snoops under the shadow of a Russian space rocket as it prepares for blast off. Inexplicably the rodent appears to have stationed its own burrow directly beneath the launchpad, at Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome. But rather than run for cover before the rocket takes off for outer space, the nonchalant animal casually [...More...]
Jul 192012
Surfers on a Californian beach had some unexpected companions this week when two goats hopped on a board to catch a wave. Goat herder Dana McGregor regularly takes his goats Pismo and Goatee to the state beach in San Onofre, California and said they were naturals at the sport. McGregor started taking Pismo's mother [...More...]
Jul 192012
When the mercury climbs the only remedy for a giant panda is one giant ice block. Eight-year-old Wei Wei was able to cool down in the scorching weather at a zoo in China by giving the ice block a big bear hug on Wednesday. And he didn’t venture far for snacks with carrots on [...More...]
Jul 012012
They are generally regarded as pests, so this raccoon should consider itself very lucky that someone came to the rescue… after getting its head stuck in a storm drain. The mischievous critter was spotted by Department of Public Works (DPW) director Bill Zimmer outside his home in downtown Detroit. The raccoon, clearly in some [...More...]
Jun 272012
An unlikely three-and-a-half-year-old guest took a dip in a club house swimming pool and he had no trouble keeping his head above the water. In fact, Monduli, a giraffe, is a regular visitor at the Kilimanjaro Golf and Wildlife Estate in Tanzania The leggy swimmer is the only giraffe at the estate after [...More...]
Jun 162012
These breathtaking underwater pictures captured by marine life photographer in the wildest parts of the planet are awe-inspiring. David Doubilet's images were taken in the far-reaches of the Antarctic and around exotic islands. The vibrant photographs range from cute Australian sea lions to a terrifying Great White Shark. Even a black and white scene [...More...]
Jun 152012
This is the moment a hungry puppy was caught by a hidden camera stealing his master's steak. Topagna the Chinese crested dog was busted devouring the dinner of Indiana family the Reinens after they set up a CCTV system to find out who was stealing their food. The footage showed the three-year-old trying, and [...More...]
Jun 152012
Leopard feel into a water tank in Inda. A unfortunate leopard was stuck for hours when it fell into a grungy reservoir in India The wild cat was not able to climb over the slimy 14 ft wall which surrounded the pond and languished in the tank for hours. A team of foresters [...More...]
Jun 132012
When we see their spindly legs scuttling across the floor, many of us quake with fear. Although very few spiders in the UK are poisonous, it is estimated that there are a million arachnophobics in this country. Now scientists believe they may have worked out why we fear spiders more than other creepy-crawlies. Psychology [...More...]
Jun 112012
When the Japanese embrace a craze they do so with a fervour and extravagance that can baffle outsiders. So while the country’s growing trend for dog ownership might seem innocuous enough, it has spawned an 8 billion-a-year industry that offers adored pooches the sort of over-the-top luxuries usually reserved for the wealthiest humans. Families increasingly regard [...More...]