Awesome Animals

Meet Chopsticks, a quaker parrot who lives at Animal Wonders. He knows a lot of words and sounds, but what he loves to do is play off what he’s hearing at the moment, so laughter often snowballs when he’s around.

We’ve seen plenty of motorcycles pulling along a passenger in a sidecar, but this is the first time we’ve seen a custom motorcycle trailer just for a dog to ride in. We especially love watching this pooch’s ears flap in the breeze.

…or should we say Dragon Baaaall Sheep. YouTuber Hoolopee recreated Vegeta and Goku’s battle using sheep and lots of bright colors. Unfortunately he didn’t include the part where Vegeta transforms into a giant ape.

An english bulldog named Diesel has an unusual obsession – cardboard boxes. In this case, he’s so hellbent on hanging onto this one that he ignores the fact that it totally obscures his vision. Just keep him away from traffic and staircases.

Zoologist and photographer Mark Carwardine used a drone to capture this enchanting moment of a grey whale mother and her calf playing with tourists on a boat off the coast of Baja California, Mexico.

YouTuber Aaron’s Animals is back to wreak more havoc with his digitally-augmented pets, this time letting his virtual cats loose to burn up the streets in tricked-out rides. We’re waiting for the complaints from the VFXSPCA.

This apathetic owl must be a Jay Z fan. Watch it treat a couple of smaller birds that are furiously dive bombing its head like they didn’t exist. Owls is pimps too go and brush your shoulders off hoot hoot!

You’ll need to use Chrome, the YouTube mobile app, or Kolor to view this 360º video from GoPro’s spherical rig, but it’s worth the effort. After all, how often do you get to ride on the back of a Triple Crown winning race horse?

Ba. Ha ba ba. Ha ba ba da ga da ga. Ha ba ba da da ba. Ha da ba da ga da ga. Ha da da. Ba ba ba ba. Hawww. Ha wa wa waa. Haw hawwa. Haw. Hawwa babba. Haw. Internet gold. That is all.

Princess Yellow Feather sounds like the name of a character from a family flick, and this amazon parrot knows how to sing Everything is Awesome from The LEGO Movie like a boss. Best comment: “Everything is awesome…when you live in a tree.”

AsapSCIENCE looks at a variety of facts about dogs, from their impressive schnozzes, to their ability to respond to emotions, their intelligence compared to humans, and the reasons they do the things that endear them to us.

Well here’s something you don’t see every day. In order to save a cow stuck at the top of a mountain with a bad hoof, a crew lifted the animal out via helicopter. We love how the cow is so nonchalant. Like, hey, this is a pretty cool view, man.

These ridiculously cute malamute puppies are perplexed by the music being played, and twist and turn their heads as they attempt to figure out what sort of creature makes those strange sounds. They’re like living bobbleheads.

Thor the Shih Tzu apparently doesn’t like Simba, the orange tabby cat who lives under the same roof, so the 10-week-old pup decides to do something about his feline nemesis We love how proud Thor seems of his accomplishment.

YouTuber MrTomostan says he “casually taught a seagull to tap dance during… lunch hour.” But here’s the thing: The bird already knows that dance, and was probably looking for food when he saw it. So really the bird trained him.

Due to the financial situation in Greece, there are strict daily limits on ATM cash withdrawals. Perhaps the Greek government should fly in this cat from Israel to help enforce its policies.

The WWF of Australia strapped a GoPro onto the back of a green turtle as it was tagged and released back into the wild. Follow along with the big guy on a first-turtle view of the Great Barrier Reef without getting your hair wet.

We’re not sure what Ollie the Schnauzer is trying to say here, but we think he sounds a bit like Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel from The Simpsons in dog form. Somebody needs to songify this now.

The crime: ruining toilet paper. The suspect: a French bulldog, caught with said toilet paper still wrapped around its speechless being. The eyewitness: a bullmastiff willing to testify, perhaps in exchange for protection.

Hillary Rae and her friends went cage diving and got their money’s worth when a great white shark just went for it and tried to chew through their cage. This is one of the times when the line between “best” and “worst” is incredibly thin.

Barry the bedlington terrier not only looks perfectly at home behind the wheel of this miniature 1957 Rolls-Royce drophead, but he actually knows how to drive it. When he runs out of gas he can always ride his tricycle.

These people overestimated their baby’s ability to speak. They also severely underestimated what their dog is willing to do to get food. Next thing you know that dog is getting gold stars at pre-school.

A female Holstein named Blosom holds the Guinness World Record for the world’s tallest cow at 6’2″. Her owner Patty Meads-Hanson claims Blosom was even taller when she was younger. Sadly the cow passed away recently.