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The Story of the Abandoned Bison Calf – May 2019 – Yellowstone National Park
#Yellowstone #TheAbandonedCalf #Bison – We have all heard about the story of the lone bison calf being loaded into a car and delivered to the Rangers’ station. Well on a cold May morning at 6 am we found an abandoned … Continue reading
Mailman Takes Selfies w/ Every Dog and Cat Who Live Along His Route
This is one mailman the dogs chase for kisses. Dogs aren’t usually fans of mailmen, but the canines of São Paulo are making an exception for friendly neighborhood postal worker, Angelo Cristiano Da Silva Antunes. He goes by the name … Continue reading
Watch & Listen to a Hungry Herd of 20 Capybaras Eat a Giant Pumpkin | My Modern Met
They must have such strong teeth! Have you ever seen a group of capybaras eat a pumpkin? Probably not, but the unusual event is surprisingly fascinating to watch. Nagasaki Biopark in Japan recently shared a video of its rather hungry … Continue reading
Why bird nests aren’t covered in poop
An ornithologist explains how robin hatchlings and their parents keep their nest clean
Woman plays saxophone to Cows at Sunrise/Dawn
Ave Maria for young cows at sunrise, see their reaction – adorable… The first time playing to an audience of cows. I’m very nervous playing in front of anyone – which is why there are a few dodgy notes, the … Continue reading
Hummingbirds See Spectacular Colors Humans Can Only Imagine – Comparatively, We’re Color-Blind
While humans have three color cones in the retina sensitive to red, green and blue light, birds have a fourth color cone that can detect ultraviolet light. A research team led by Princeton’s Mary Caswell Stoddard trained wild hummingbirds, like … Continue reading
Adam Savage Builds an Octopus Puzzle! (Part 1)
(Note: This is a video series we filmed in 2018, before the current pandemic lockdown.) Adam visits the California Academy of Sciences to meet one of its Giant Pacific octopuses and chat with marine biologists to learn about octopus intelligence. … Continue reading
The Billion Ant Mega Colony and the Biggest War on Earth
In nearly every corner of the Earth, ants wage war against each other. Their weapons are what nature gave them. Some have strong armour, deadly stingers or sharp mandibles. And then there is this tiny, and not very impressive ant. … Continue reading
This Dog Takes the Bus by Herself to Walk Around at the Park
What a good girl. Every morning, a very independent pooch named Eclipse leaves her house alone. She’s on a mission: get to the dog park located in the heart of Downtown Seattle. Over the years, Eclipse has become a favorite … Continue reading
Study reveals exciting speech processing similarities between humans and dogs
Dog brains, just as human brains, process speech hierarchically: intonations at lower, word meanings at higher stages. Human brains process lexical meaning separately from the emotional prosody of speech at higher levels of the processing hierarchy. Dog brains can also … Continue reading
How Did Giant Pterosaurs Fly?
The largest pterosaurs like Quetzalcoatlus were closer in size to airplanes than birds. No flying animal alive today comes close to their huge size. So did giant pterosaurs actually fly? I went to see the fossil bones of the largest … Continue reading
Everything You Wanted to Know About Animal Farts
Dani Rabaiotti is the co-author of a book that passes the smell test. It’s titled “Does It Fart? The Definitive Guide to Animal Flatulence.” A zoologist at London’s Zoological Society, Rabaiotti got interested in the stinky subject after her brother … Continue reading
