Awesome Animals

You might have thought that drifting around corners was an activity reserved for motorized vehicles, but it turns out that just like the Internet, cats are trying to horn in on mankind’s leisure activities once again.

With the abundance of compilations showing the talent of our species, YouTuber Humansare2011 made a compilation representing other animals  to balance things out. Of course ponies can’t actually moonwalk, but still.

ZeFrank talks about the Aye-aye, a very unusual primate that looks like a monkey crossed with a house elf. If you think its name and appearance are weird, wait ’til you see how it looks for food.

Marvel at the difference between cats and dogs. In a masterful subversion of Pavlovian conditioning, Dan Sorkowitz trained his cat to train him. When it wants treats, it summons Dan with its bell. Who’s the pet here again?

0 to 60mph in under 3 seconds. 75mph top speed. And a bad ass spotted coat. The Smithsonian Channel explains how these fast cats have held the animal land speed record for more than 10 million years.

Naturalist Brad Josephs shares some of the footage that got using his GoPro camera, including a scene where a curious grizzly bear tried munching on the gadget. Parts of the video will appear in BBC’s Great Bear Stakeout.

A city bus was being driven along its route on Goucher Street in Johnstown, Pennsylvania when an unexpected passenger climbed in. From up front. A spokesman for the bus company claims no one was injured.

Disco the parakeet makes more pop culture references than a Seth MacFarlane movie produced by Quentin Tarantino. Though he might mix up some of his catchphrases from time to time. More here.

YouTuber Anthony Jackson’s cat loves popcorn. But he doesn’t seem to want to put the snack in his belly. In fact it seems the other way around. He wants to be one with the popcorn. Is he tripping on catnip?

(NSFW: Language) If you think First World Problems are excessive, let ZeFrank introduce you to a whole new level of non-issues: Cat World Problems. We bet a Sad Dog Diary would actually make us weep.

This Labrador Retriever is a lot smarter than this poor fellow. At least he knows what an actual human looks – or smells – like. But he is a dog after all. This is the limit of his understanding right here.

Professor Sam Scott Lapin was shooting a promo video for something called LEGO Town (can we go there on vacation, please?) when his cat upstages him. Better not let kitty lose in LEGO Town, unless you want a Catzilla incident.

Johan Scherft makes realistic life-size papercraft scale models of birds. He makes templates on a PC then paints the printed templates by hand. He also has a few colored templates on his site and tutorials on YouTube.

This dog’s master really wants to give it a big fat smooch on the dog lips. But pooch is having none of that, in this Japanese clip whose description translates roughly to “Please refer to before you buy a Shiba Inu.”

Art Gimbel shot this video of wild Japanese macaques bathing at the Jigokudani Monkey Park in Japan. Also known as snow monkeys, the primates are used to the presence of humans. View live images of the park here.

By now the world has seen Maru cram himself into small boxes, but thanks to Big Cat Rescue, we now know that the big guys enjoy taking over cardboard structures too. (Thanks Deron!)

That’s all the world needs now, hipster dogs taking to the streets of Brooklyn, listening to FUN., and driving Volkswagen Beetles. What’s next? Dog’s riding velocipedes while donning handlebar moustaches?

In this 2011 TED Talk, Primatologist Dr. Frans de Waal shares one of his experiments about moral behavior in animals. Watch what happens when two capuchin monkeys are given unequal rewards for the same task.

If Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage were reincarnated as a cat and a dog, it might look something his. Good thing their Tested.com team captured the action in 240fps slow motion for the world to enjoy.

Redditor anhydrous claims that their mom’s cockatoo has been trying to kill him for the last 10 years. And that it ate part of his brother’s ear. The crazy-eyed bird even knows when to attack. Cue Jaws music.

We’ve seen some well-trained dogs before, but this Australian Cattle Dog seems to clearly understand exactly what its owner is saying, every step of the way – going well beyond the simple “sit, stay” that most dogs can handle.

(NSFL) ZeFrank’s latest True Facts episode may feature a very common animal, but trust us, this is his weirdest and freakiest episode yet. Ducks are straight up hentai material.

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