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Just Start Swimming

Tourists at the Singapore Botanic Gardens managed to capture the moment when a family of otters were going for a swim. This is most likely mum and dad teaching their pups to swim for the first time as evidenced by hesitation of the last two pups.

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George The Wombat

When he was only 4 months old, George's mom was killed by a car. Some kind soul saw the slain wombat and thankfully thought to check her pouch where he found little orphaned George, and as a result the tiny wombat made his way to the Australian…

Y'all, I posted my first YT video. Well, I'm still working on my first one but it's taking a long time so I made an even dumber one just to have something up. It's exceedingly stupid.

So here's a link and also pretty please sub to my channel pretty please with sugar, and if…

Story 136
Seagull On The 17th Hole

Golfer Brad Fabel ran into some trouble during the 1998 THE PLAYERS Championship at the Sawgrass' Stadium Course. He had hit his tee shot into the heart of the green at the 17th hole where a seagull saw it land. The bird wandered over and…

Story 135
The Number One Video On YouTube

The top results by view count on YT are almost always children's content. If you have kids, you know that young children will watch things over and over (and over). And that's partly how one animal-themed video got more views than…

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Hamster Racing

An outbreak of hoof and mouth disease in the UK in 2001 caused many horse races to be cancelled, which was quite a hit to betting agencies. An interactive gaming business called Blue Square reacted by introducing something else to bet on for a week:…

My cardinals are finally back, caught the fellow making his pew pew laser noise. As a bonus you can hear the mourning doves who live here, probably building a nest in our eavestroughs like they always do.

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The Goose Whisperer

So this video, from 2015, is awesome and no one knows anything about it. It's been written about by Huffpo who didn't know anything about it either, the author just made a bunch of jokes about what they were saying. I did find it was originally…

Story 132
A Counter-Clockwise Snail

Garden snails have shells that spiral out from the centre in a 'right' clockwise direction. In 2017, a retired scientist in England found one with a shell that coiled 'left' or counter-clockwise. So like anyone would do, he sent it to the…

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Theo The Rhino

Theodore is a white rhinoceros who was born at the Toronto Zoo in Canada in 2018. He was the first calf of mom Sabi who just had a second calf last year. The Toronto Zoo provided this footage of 2 month old Theo meeting snow for the first time and very…

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The Spongmonkies

British animator Joel Veitch came home from the pub with his brother one night in 2003 and the pair threw together a song called 'We Like The Moon' in that one evening. The lyrics were mostly just things they saw in their immediate area. The next day…

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Abandoned Safari Park In New Jersey

Entertainment titan Warner Brothers opened a theme park in 1972 called 'Warner Bros. Jungle Habitat' in West Milford, New Jersey, USA. It had a petting zoo/Disneyland type section where you could get your picture taken with Bugs…

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Germany's Psychic Octopus

The Sea Life Centre in Oberhausen, Germany, received a baby octopus in 2008, whom they named Paul.

At some point, Paul's keepers decided to lower two clear boxes into his tank with a treat in each and the flags of Germany and whatever…

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Is that a Ferret In Your Pants?

Ferret Legging is a 'sport' of English origin where players wear loose fitting trousers tied shut at the ankles and no underwear. Everyone then shoves one or two live ferrets down their pants and the winner is whoever lasts the longest.…