Awesome Animals

Officials at the Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in Nagoya, Japan claim that a western lowland gorilla named Shibani is attracting female visitors. It’s all in his expressive eyes, and his ability to squinch. He knows what’s up.

This video purports to be from a series of 2003 experiments showing a fish that’s learned to play fetch just like a dog. The whole thing smells a little fishy to us, since the post links to a mysterious company called Phoenix Biogenic.

A group of baby goats vie for position atop some logs. Since there are more goats than logs, it turns into a game of musical chairs – sans music – and sans chairs. There, we fixed it.

Redditor disillusioned shares this time-lapse of their Golden Retrievers Colby and Blue running to their food bowls, starting from when they were about 2 months old up until they were 9 months old. Now we want a dog drifting game.

A squirrel was spotted running to the top of the net at a recent Phillies/Cards game, when it suddenly took a flying leap – directly into the bullpen. We don’t know the prognosis of the squirrel, but he managed to clear the bench.

The flapjack octopus is a small deep sea creature with webbed tentacles, a squishy body and big eyes. It’s the inspiration for Finding Nemo‘s Pearl. Dr. Stephanie Bush is considering giving them the scientific name Opisthoteuthis adorabilis.

Border collies and frisbees go together like hot dogs and mustard. So it’s only natural that Ace would want every possible frisbee he could get his jaws on. Here, his owner tosses him 30 of the discs in under 30 seconds and he catches them all.

YouTuber Melissa Lee is pretty sure that her dog Matzo knocked their trash can over, so she decided to interrogate him on camera. Matzo wisely kept his mouth shut, then made his escape like a he was a cartoon character.

“If someone you love walks through the door, even if it happens five times a day, you should go totally insane with joy.” A heartbreaking account of Ben Moon’s relationship with his dog Denali, told from the latter’s perspective.

Mauricio Hoyos shares this 2013 video of a huge and pregnant great white shark named Deep Blue, who’s about 20ft long and at least 50 years old. This was taken in Guadalupe Island, around the same time Discovery tracked Deep Blue.

Two fish enter, one fish leaves. Velda’s whimsical pond accessory lets fish and their owners get a better view of each other, allowing fish to swim above the surface of the water for a brief moment and peep their heads out.

While filming a snowboarder in Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, Helipro saw a rabbit run right into a small avalanche. Don’t worry kids, Helipro says he’s fine. The song is Flanagan and Allen’s Run Rabbit Run.

Vine Hub shares this video of two Golden Retrievers locked in a lazy battle for a tennis ball. Neither of them wants to give ground, but there is hope. A third Golden steps in to decide the winner: the Internet.

Kaba, a snow leopard in captivity at the Seneca Park Zoo shows off his instinctive desire to hunt for his prey as he takes a flying leap towards his lunch – a hunk of meat dangling from the ceiling. We would not want to be this cat’s zookeeper.

We’ve seen a cat who figured out how to drink while lying down. YouTube chrwaa’s portly corgi on the other hand figured out how to play fetch while lying down. The secret? Imagination.

Pit bull trainers Rafael Caraveo Saldivar and Vaders Pits demonstrate the immense pulling power and strength of these impressive dogs as one of their pups lunges with such ferocity that it can run more than 12 feet straight up a wall.

An armadillo at a zoo in France encounters an insurmountable obstacle – a ramp which it just cannot ascend. Perhaps they shouldn’t spray down the habitat with WD-40 after all. And just how many legs does an armadillo have?

YouTuber Samson Lee and his friend went to Olympic Game Farm in Sequim, Washington to see the waving Kodiak bear. The big fella knew the drill. He performed as requested, then nonchalantly collected his fee.

Brazilian Jiu-jitsu practitioner Gene Cook Jr. demonstrates some of the martial art’s moves with the help of his pitbull Koa. Now we know how to armbar a dog. Actually we didn’t get any of that at all. Koa’s too funny.

It’s not often that you see an octopus carrying things around, but when you do, it’s kind of silly looking. A diver spotted one of the eight-legged sea creatures awkwardly trying to carry two halves of a coconut shell. It’s like Octodad IRL.

Tiny Hamster turns into a cute kaiju after eating green ooze and being struck by lightning. He then goes on to decimate a miniature city partially made of fruits and vegetables in Hello Denizen’s silly short film. Available as a children’s book.

YouTuber Onur Armagan overinflated an air mattress, turning it into what he claims is the world’s largest whoopee cushion. His cat is clearly sick of his childishness and false claims.

A team of marine scientists funded by the NOAA used a robotic camera off the coast of Puerto Rico to capture incredible footage of just a few of the unusual undersea lifeforms dwelling up to 20,000ft. beneath the surface. More here.