Showing posts with label animal video. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animal video. Show all posts

Monkey waiter

I thought this was too creepy to actually post - - a restaurant in Japan has a monkey waiter - - which they sometimes make wear a human mask. The video is the stuff of nightmares. Via.

Corgis playing tetherball



Video of corgis playing tetherball. Via.

Mimic octopus








The mimic octopus can swim like a fish, or bury most of its arms and look like a sea snake, or stand on its legs, or run on the ocean floor like a turkey, or puff itself up to double it's size, or change the patterns on its body, or...

*Buy I'm The Biggest Thing in the Ocean at Amazon.

Video of a Fennec Fox eating carrots



Video of a Fennec Fox eating (and playing) with carrots. Via The Daily What, which just launched a spin-off blog.

*Previously: Mozilla's Fennec logo.

*Buy plush fennec foxes at Amazon.

I had no idea that frogs could be so terrifying

Giant bullfrogs are frightening:
The giant bullfrog is like Kermit on steroids. When it lunges — and South African frog expert Vincent Carruthers has seen it attack horses — it's a fearsome sight, squinting and baring the two fang-like front teeth in its gaping, shovel-like jaw.

Right now one giant bullfrog, slightly smaller than a dinner plate, is busily trying to mate with a female perhaps a tenth his size. But before the deed can be consummated, another male swaggers up and launches himself in toothy-jawed attack.

Orange limbs fly and bullfrog No. 1 almost loses his lady, but manages to clamber back on. Again his rival attacks. And again. And again.
If you want to spice up your nightmares, here's videos of frogs eating mice:




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Parrot singing Let the Body Hit the Floor



Video of a parrot singing Drowning Pool's Let the Body Hit the floor. (Not just the chorus, the verses, too.)

Video roundup


Worst fill of dead air time ever as anchor asks, "So she's enjoying penis a little bit more, is she?" Via.



Ad for the free download of Portal and teaser for Portal 2.



Squirrel fending off a murder of crows intent on eating a dead squirrel.



Blatant soccer dive.

*Previously: Amorous dogs disrupt a news broadcast.

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Eagles grabbing sloths



Earlier today, Boing Boing, which is celebrating its 10 birthday, posted fun facts about sloths including that they stay so still because they're afraid an eagle will grab them. Apparently with good reason as these videos demonstrate:





*Previously: Watch a Golden Eagle yank goats right off of a mountain.

*Buy sloths at eBay.

James Cameron’s Laser Cats 5 (video roundup)


James Cameron’s Laser Cats 5.




Tatsunoko vs. Capcom ad in the style of Robot Chicken. Via.




Watch this Patriots fan (who lost a bet) run through an invisible fence while wearing a shock collar. Notice that the dog stops before getting to the fence.




French Bulldog can't roll over.




Dog really likes the roller slide.




Kingsford the piglet. Via.

*Previously: Squashed manatee.

*Buy Tatsunoko vs. Capcom at Amazon.