Just horsin’ around the stable, this young lady has some jams going and can’t help but dance. The horse studies a bit and then joins in. But the horse doesn’t want to dance with her, he wants a dance battle-type handoff, so he can watch her anytime she dances. This horse has rhythm! -via Buzzfeed
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The lions should consider themselves lucky. The mongoose let them live.
In 2011, wildlife photographer Jérôme Guillaumot was in the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. He captured this incredible encounter. 4 young lions thought that the much smaller mongoose would make a good snack. But the mongoose's sheer savagery was frightening to them. It retreated into its den safely.
But that didn't end the encounter.
The mongoose wasn't satisfied to let the lions prowl around the surface. So it came out of its den and chased them away!
-via Twisted Sifter
Martha Bellingham was going to work in London when she encountered this dog playing in a fountain. The dog bounds back and forth through the streams, taking full bliss in the simple act of running through the water.
May we all be as happy as this dog.
(Unrelated photo by Shimelle Lane)
Meanwhile, in British Columbia, Twitter user @IamFane was waiting for the Canada Post to deliver a package to him. When he returned home after an excursion, he found this notice at his mailbox. The mail delivery person let him know that he had decided not to take the package to the front door. He had a good excuse:
Ok, fair enough @canadapostcorp that’s a decent reason to not drop the package off at my door. pic.twitter.com/ykAldpWpEP
— M Fane (@IamFane) September 24, 2014-via Twitchy
Many animals work together to improve each other’s lives, like the oxpecker birds who ride on rhinos and other large mammals in Sub-Saharan Africa, keeping their ride tick free and staying safely out of harms way at the same time.
These animals know that together they’ll go farther in life, but it seems like some of these critters are using these symbiotic relationships to their own ends.
A camera trap set up by conservationists from Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park in South Africa captured these bizarre examples of animal teamwork- a spotted genet riding on the back of a buffalo, using the big galoot like his own personal taxi service.
So what’s the big deal?
Mammals don’t usually hitch rides on the backs of other mammals in the wild, but it seems this innovative genet is trying to rewrite the rules in his favor, even daring to hitch a ride on the back of a rhino.
Here's what the conservationists wrote about this wily genet on their blog Wildlife Act Team:
This series of photographs depicts a large spotted genet on top of two individual buffalo. One of the buffalo seemed to be unimpressed with the genet and can be seen turning around and thus shaking the genet off. The other buffalo was quite content to let the genet "tag along" for an evening stroll. The genet seemed to have spent this particular evening riding buffalo!
What's even more bizarre is that the same particular genet has a habit of hitch-hiking on other larger beasts and this rhino seemed an ideal taxi service one evening! He decided to jump on this rhino on the very same night that he was seen riding on the back of two separate buffalo.
-Via io9
Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange
Marilyn in Pink Roses by Bert Stem
The photographer Sandro Miller contacted the famous actor John Malkovich to pitch his novel premise for a project: Miller would duplicate iconic photographic portraits using Malkovich as the subject. Malkovich would have to dress up a bit, wear makeup, or even be naked. He would become Andy Warhol, Albert Einstein, John Lennon, and other people captured for posterity by the world's greatest photographers.
The results of their collaboration form the exhibit Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich: Homage to Photographic Masters. This exhibit at the Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago will be open from November 7 to January 31.
Content warning: artistic nudity.
One of the funniest things about big dogs is that they don't seem to understand that they are big dogs. Take Sully the Saint Bernard for example. A massive dog by any means, but it seems everytime "daddy" gets home, Sully tackles him and forces some quality hug time on him to let him know how much he was missed.
I will be honest with you. I would be delighted if something ever missed me that much.
While the thought of a massive Saint Bernard tackling you and pinning you might inspire images of Cujo in your head, it is quite clear to see Sully is just a big teddy bear. And really, what is better than a big teddy bear that loves to give hugs?
England's Mary Anning, born in 1799, was a pioneer in the field of paleontology. Her family's property was near Lyme Regis, an area known for its wealth of Jurassic-era fossils.
Anning risked her life to recover fossils, as the area was suceptible to landslides, particularly in the winter months. The landslides would expose new fossils, but they posed a great danger to those who traversed the land. She lost her dog Trey in such a disaster.
Anning is credited with some important finds, including the first skeleton of a plesiosaur, among other firsts. Check out this SciShow video to understand how Mary Anning shaped the scientific study of fossils. -Via Laughing Squid.
College Humor brings us a parody of “Under the Sea” from The Little Mermaid, this time going down much deeper where the sun does not penetrate, where sea creatures grow larger, uglier, and more dangerous than anything Sebastian is used to. We’ve featured a lot of these critters before, but seeing them all together is fairly terrifying. Just keep swimming, just keep swimming...
ImageCredits: Danger Dust
One thing about school is, it can a little tiring at times. You trot from class to class, and over the course of the day, it is hard to keep that fire burning inside. But what if, every time you entered one of the classrooms, there were staggering works of art drawn on the board to inspire the class? Do you feel like that would make a difference? Well, mystery art collective, DangerDust, do just that. Descibed as "two anonymous artist who love chalk dust", they are like the Banksy of the chalk art movement.
The Awesome Daily assembled this brilliant gallery of their work to show people just how mind-blowing something simple as chalk on a blackboard could be. Just the way in which they blend amazing quotes with art that, at times, looks as if it is coming in three dimensions of the board itself, will leave you in awe.
Also, this makes you think. The next time you see a kid doubled over some chalk, doodling away in his driveway, stop and take a moment to realize where that could potentially lead one day.
Kid Snippets, an ongoing video series by Bored Shorts TV, adds a bit of realism to the imaginations of young children. The producers ask kids to act out what they imagine an adult situation might be. What they say becomes the script, which adult actors then perform.
We've already seen the kids present their versions of marriage counseling and a door-to-door sales call. In this video, the kids teach us how to conduct ourselves effectively in a job interview. Do you want to walk out of that interview employed? Then pay close attention.
-via How to Be a Dad
A beagle and a banjo: while I've never considered the two simultaneously before, it just feels so right. It must feel right for this beagle as well, because he howls from the heart to the song of his human's banjo playing. At one point he seems as if he's sung himself sleepy, but he rebounds to chime in with those final notes. Via Tastefully Offensive
These hilarious commercials for SolarWinds show what it would be like if people acted face-to-face like they do through email. The emojis demonstration is pitch-perfect and is just about what I think when I read them on my screen.
One thing I'd love to see in a sequel: the guy who insists on hitting Reply instead of Reply All during a group conversation.
-via 22 Words
(Photo: PeanutbutterPirate)
The Apple Watch, which premiered yesterday, is allegedly a revolution in wearable computing. But it seems really ordinary.
I can't get the WiFi to work. Maybe it was a bad idea for forego the protection plan.
-via Tastefully Offensive
You gotta give it to the guy. Mel Brooks has been making people laugh for years now, and Monday, when the time came for him to leave his handprints at TLC Chinese Theater along Hollywood's Walk of Fame, he continued that streak of hilarity. Though many did not notice at first, it seems Mel Brooks wore a prosthetic extra finger on his left hand that was so realistic, even looking at the above picture it is hard to tell it is fake.
What makes this so great is in 100 years, when some kid is being dragged down that street by his tourist parents, he is going to catch a glance at Mel Brooks' hand print in the cement, and for one small moment in time, this kid is going to believe you can make it in Hollywood if you are a mutant. That, my friends, is awesome.
If you didn't already love him for Spaceballs and Blazing Saddles, you have to love him for this.
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