Awesome Animals

There’s a rumor that planes flying over the heads of penguins makes them fall over and unable to right themselves, causing mass casualties. Russia Today’s reporters get to the bottom the story.

Like many dogs, Purin the beagle loves playing catch with his owner. But she plays it unlike any dog we’ve seen, making other mutts look like fools, what with their barbaric mouth-catching. Yatta!

You know how they say that sloths are slow? Perhaps it’s a good idea that someone gave this little guy a hand as he made his plodding three-toed trek across a street in Costa Rica.

Dogs are wonderful creatures. At times, they’re incredibly smart, other times, not so much. And sometimes they’re just “creative”, like this boxer and his “special” way of getting down stairs.

Turn your speakers up or it won’t be fun: a kitten comes across the unknown, the immovable, the DREADED TENNIS BALL. Nah, it’s probably like this whenever it encounters something new.

Robbie the dog is smart enough to fetch a stick and bring it back when his owner throws it to him. Unfortunately, he’s not bright enough to figure out that this is not his owner. Gotta love dogs.

We’ve all heard about the critical role that a dog played in the takedown of Osama Bin Laden. Turns out cats have been involved in military operations for a while as well.

In Soviet Russia, they use kittens instead of crash test dummies in what can only be called extreme animal testing. PeTA, we’ve been assured that no kittens were harmed in the making of this video.

We’ve posted our share of silly animal videos, but we want to know if you love ’em or hate ’em. State your case over on Facebook, then check out something else that people either love or hate.

Determined to get a clean shot at his distracted opponent, this mutt takes a page out of his unwitting prey’s book. We’re sure even cats would approve of the dog’s stealthy approach.

We wish the quality of this clip were better, but when we got to the part where one of these Australian cattle dogs runs across all those benches without missing a step, we had to put it up anyhow.

A video showing fire ants making a nigh-unsinkable raft out of their bodies, taken by Georgia Tech graduate student Nathan Mlot. The ants can also make a bubble of air if submerged underwater.

Takauki Hori printed these skeletons of endangered species onto translucent paper. When flat, they just look like a bunch of random bones, but properly assembled, they form a 3-dimensional skeleton.

We always had a childhood fantasy of Charlie the Poodle dragging us around the neighborhood on our skateboard. It never worked out, but Quila the Pit Bull shows us that the fantasy is reality here.

Baby Molly isn’t too impressed with bubbles. But she does find it utterly hysterical when she sees their dog Bennie pop them with his mouth, though he seems to think it’s serious business.

A lively Jack Russell named Jesse is happy to help his owner around the house, and now he can help you stay fit with his exercise video. Although we suggest leaving the treadmill handstand to Jesse.

While it’s more than likely it took a pair of penguins to pull off this stunt, we like to think it was one insanely fast penguin darting through the water. Don’t blink, or you might miss it.

A girl named Mel shows off her uncanny ability to sound like just about any animal you can throw at her. And no, we don’t advocate throwing animals at anyone, even if they do make faces like this.

Two fierce animals face off in this clip from Disney’s documentary African Cats. You know someone is really powerful when they can win without getting into a fight. This now makes sense.

Jerry the wiener dog really likes to play fetch, so his owner built him a robot fetch machine, and trained Jerry to load the ball all by himself. Humans, you’ve been officially outsourced.

That title is misleading. If you’re looking for a polar bear on skis in this video, you’ll be disappointed. You’ll also miss the white-on-white big bear that nearly makes this skier crap his pants.

A video from the 60s showing badass herpetologist Ross Allen and his son Tom take turns in wrestling a 20-foot anaconda at Silver Springs. Check out the comments on YouTube for bonus laughs.

Unlike her companions, who are all still as statues, for some reason Patsy the penguin is fighting the sweet, sweet urge to take a nap, but that soothing music in the background isn’t helping.