Awesome Animals

Triple D Game Farm is a ranch in Kalispell, MT that raises animal models for photography, cinematography and educational purposes. Here’s one of their models, a grizzly bear, goofing off with a sprinkler.

A curious moose drops by a home in Alaska and decides he likes the sound of the wind chimes out on the back porch. At first we thought he might have just bumped into them, but he keeps going back for more.

YouTuber Andrew Parrish’s cat takes in a bit of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic Psycho, and proceeds to offer up a series of priceless, wide-eyed reactions to the scares on screen. Let the memes begin!

Musician and comedian Nic Smal created this brief rhythmic track using only sounds sampled from his English bulldog, Banjoe. While dog farts are pretty funny, it’s the jowl sound that’s really our favorite.

The Japanese zoo Nagasaki Bio Park shares this short compilation of its hippopotamuses being fed with whole watermelons. The fruits seem like grapes in their huge mouths. Imagine if that was your head. Agemasu!

After chopping up animal sounds to make a pants-wetttingly funny cover version of Linkin Park’s Numb, YouTuber Insane Cherry created a remake of The Pixies’ classic which literally made us spit our coffee out when one of the Nonono Cats got to singing.

After teaching dogs to drive cars, animal behaviorist Mark Vette and his team managed to teach some very smart rescue dogs how to take their skills to the air. We’re betting Barry the bedlington terrier would make quick work of this task.

(PG-13) PistolShrimps reenacts a handful of classic movie scenes with felines in place of human actors. Those Wolf of Wall Street bits make us want to see every Martin Scorsese movie remade with cats. “You meowin’ to me? You meowin’ to me?!?”

A seagull spots another seagull moving in on its territory, and gives it a stern warning to keep away. The only problem is the other bird is just its reflection it a car’s shiny bumper cover. Guess you can’t expect too much from a brain the size of a pea.

A couple of tigers in captivity at Ireland’s Dublin Zoo had a little bit of a spat when one of them decided to wake the other from its deep slumber. This is exactly how we react when awakened from our afternoon power naps.

YouTuber Madison Blakey shares this compilation of their mother’s dog Luke, who moves from the TV room to the bedroom every time he hears the TV’s power off chime… even though he’s already lying down. A smart way of being stupid.

Aaron’s Animals gets all meta on itself, as the very talented Prince Michael the cat decides to make his own YouTube video, and proves along the way that you can’t force something to go viral. Case in point: this clip has less than 10,000 views so far.

Cat Man Chris shows his cats Cole and Marmalade an electronic piggy bank where an animatronic cat snatches the coin and hides it insides its box. The shot that will propel Marmalade to meme legend is at 1:00.

Nukazooka (the new name of YouTuber AndrewMFilms) used visual effects to make a bunch of animal stock footage more exciting. Check out a polar bear lightsaber fight, a web-slinging monkey and more.

This NHK World documentary focuses on ornamental chicken breeds. At 5:08 it talks about the Koeyoshi, a Japanese breed whose roosters have an exceptionally long and deep crow, like an empty faucet or a creaky door.

You know the drill. Maru the cat. A small box. He’s gonna try and cram his fat ass inside of it. Only this time, we’ve got a see-through container, so we can see just how ridiculous he looks. Seriously, he’s such a dork, but we still love him.

This guy is awfully proud of his newly repaired fence – a fence he built specifically to keep his dog in the yard. But just like his lack of skill with his smartphone’s camera, his fence is a complete failure as well.

Division of Wildlife Resources officer Mark Elkins shares this intense video of him and a coworker freeing a cougar in Utah’s Pine Valley Mountains. The cougar was caught in a bobcat trap but appeared to suffer only minor wounds.

Twitter user Chris Hargreaves and his friends met an opportunistic fox at a golf course in Baltray, Ireland. We know that foxes pilfer from humans from time to time, but this one knows what’s worth taking.

We always wondered if creatures in adjacent fish tanks could somehow migrate from one tank to another. At this supermarket in Singapore, we got our answer, as a hungry eel decided to hop the fence to grab some tasty prawns from the tank next door.

John Downer Productions set their spherical Snowball Cam loose in the midst of a group of polar bears. The bears end up kicking around the ball for a sort of impromptu game of soccer. Clearly these bears haven’t heard that club soda can get blood out of white fur.

CGP Grey follows up his fascinating Americapox essay with a look at why we domesticate and farm some animals and not others. Bottom line is that the critters we leave in the wild are either too dangerous, hard to train, too independent, or too expensive to feed and keep captive.

Anthony Jones’ title for his video says it all: “My dog likes to look at me while I eat, until I catch him and he looks away from me.” But we wouldn’t be surprised if his buddy’s actually wondering what on earth the room’s theme is supposed to be.