I won’t lie to you, I’m totally a dog person. They’re lovable and sweet, and you always know when they’ve done something wrong. I could even be a cat person, too. They’ll pretty much operate on autopilot, and when was the last time you didn’t see them do something CUTE instead of bad? But birds…well, after seeing […]
Confession: I have always wanted a pet chicken. I even wrote about it in an essay for my high school French class. I decided that I would one day have a poulet of my own named Sadie. Sadly, that dream has yet to come true. In the meantime, I’ll just keep watching this impressive cutie […]
googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(‘VN_PG_DTBT_ATF’); }); When Instructables user antoniraj noticed the amount of wildlife that actively visited his backyard, he decided to create a space just for them. Many of these animals would drink from a small water bowl that needed to be filled daily. To give them a watering hole that wouldn’t require constant attention, […]
Humans have made up a lot of rules to keep order, but in the animal kingdom? Things are still a bit more wild! The 15 animals on this list don’t give a damn about stupid human rules. Do we seriously expect a sign to keep dogs out of a park? Or a front door to […]
Crows are among the smartest birds, let alone animals, in the world. In fact, scientists have found they’re at least as smart as a seven-year-old human. So it shouldn’t come as a shock when they find ways to show off their intelligence. Yet when Oren Hasson was sitting by a pond in Ramat Gan, Israel, […]
The lengths our friends at the Wildlife Aid Foundation will go to in order to save an animal in need never cease to amaze me. When a baby kestrel fell out of its nest at the top of an enormous tree, Simon and his pals had to call in a highly trained climber so that […]
Apparently Alfred Hitchcock wasn’t too far off in his uber-famous Birds movie. While these 11 birds have a long list of things they’re willing to eat, if you’re not careful, you could end up as one of them, too. (Probably. It seems likely.) Don’t believe us? Check out these terrifying “birds” and tell us you aren’t […]
http://twitter.com/#!/LeftyBollocks/status/409020424576458752 The Obama administration announced that for the next three decades the Department of the Interior will not prosecute operators of wind farms whose turbines kill eagles, supposedly in an attempt to avoid discouraging investment in that particular “clean energy” business. http://twitter.com/#!/CBSNews/status/409060333220012032 http://twitter.com/#!/AP_Politics/status/409058792161415169 Via the Associated Press: Under pressure from the wind-power industry, the Obama […]
Benny the lovebird was born with a condition called splayed legs and had to learn to cope with his disability. His parents ignored him but with the help of his siblings he amazingly managed to survive the first weeks. He was very small though compared to his brothers and sisters but with the help of […]