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 Horror movie-watching bulldog tries to warn characters of danger ... A pet owner shared video of a cinephile bulldog showing her protective nature by trying to warn characters in a horror movie of impending danger. [hidden image - please register] A video posted Monday to YouTube by user Elvis and Khaleesi shows Khaleesi the bulldog intently watching an intense scene from 2013 film The Conjuring. [hidden image - please register] The dog silently stares at the screen for several seconds, but becomes vocal and animated when a child onscreen appears to be in danger. The dog hops and barks at the screen as if trying to warn the child. "Khaleesi the bulldog loves watching horror movies and always tries to protect any potential victims from harm! She is especially vocal when children are in danger as seen in this clip," the uploader wrote. |
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 Friends use motorcycle to wash and dry man's hair ... A group of men in China were filmed putting a motorcycle to an unusual use -- washing and drying a friend's hair. [hidden image - please register] The video, filmed last month, shows a man operating the motorcycle with its rear tire elevated and placed in a shallow pool of water in Ziyang, Sichuan Province. [hidden image - please register] A second man is lying on his stomach on a wooden pallet behind the motorcycle, causing the water sprayed by the motorcycle's tire to land in his hair while a third man applies shampoo. The video cuts to the men using the motorcycle's exhaust to dry the man's hair and complete the unconventional salon treatment. |
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A musically gifted bear entered the house to play the piano ... Police in a Colorado city said a resident checked her security camera after an apparent burglary and discovered the culprit was actually a piano-playing bear. The Vail Police Department said a resident contacted authorities May 31 to report her home appeared to have been broken into while she was away. [hidden image - please register] A responding officer found evidence that the culprit was actually a black bear that came in through a kitchen window while apparently searching for food, and the resident was able to confirm the identification of the suspect, which police said was successful in stealing food from the freezer. [hidden image - please register] The footage shows the bear wandering around the home and even taking a break to play the resident's piano while gazing out the window. "The chords captured on video were unbearable and the tune was equally grizzly," a report on the City of Vail's official website said. "Although officers searched the area, the suspect is still at large." |
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 Squirrels steal Texas veteran's flags to build patriotic nest ... A Texas veteran's heartbreak at having several U.S. flags stolen from his front yard turned to laughter when he discovered the culprit -- squirrels. Jennifer Northam said her father, an Air Force veteran, was upset to discover several small U.S. flags had been stolen from the memorial in his San Antonio front yard. [hidden image - please register] "It wasn't like they had just fallen off," Northam told KABB-TV. "Both of us were kind of heartbroken. We were just confused because we're new to the neighborhood. We didn't know if somebody did it or what happened." [hidden image - please register] Northam said his attitude changed when neighbor Devin Rivera-Duque showed them video she captured of the furry thieves. The video, which Rivera-Duque posted to YouTube, shows two squirrels taking one of the small flags off its wooden stick and carrying it away. "I saw her with the first flag," Rivera-Duque said. "I was just freaked out. The second and third flag, I just started recording her." He said the squirrels used the 10 stolen flags to build a nest in a nearby tree. |
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The black mamba decided to take a nap on the cornice for curtains ... A South African family called a snake catcher to their home after they discovered a deadly black mamba perched atop a window curtain rail. [hidden image - please register] Nick Evans of KwaZulu-Natal Amphibian and Reptile Conservation posted a video to Facebook showing his capture of the venomous snake, which was discovered perched atop a window in a Craigieburn family's restroom. [hidden image - please register] The video shows Evans using a grabber to secure the snake's head, which he then grabs with his hand to safely handle the reptile. "It's not the biggest, but it's chunky," Evans says in the video. |
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Elephant fights off rhinos for food ... A fully grown elephant succesfully fights off a group of rhinos to enjoy a snack. [hidden image - please register] Suzanne Boswell, 42, a member of Vetpaw (Veterans Empowered To Protect African Wildlife), snapped the footage at the Limpopo province in South Africa. [hidden image - please register] A group of onlookers witnessed the animals squaring up to eat a bunch of grass during a drought. The elephant threw dirt, sticks, and even charged at the rhinos before they eventually fled the scene. |
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Monkeys in Indonesia learning to ransom stolen goods for food ... A group of monkeys living near an Indonesian temple have learned how to ransom items stolen from tourists in exchange for food, researchers said. [hidden image - please register] The long-tailed macaques living near Uluwatu Temple on the island of Bali have long been the subject of stories and YouTube videos alleging the monkeys steal items such as glasses from tourists and return them only in exchange for food, leading Fany Brotcorne, a primatologist at the University of Liege in Belgium, to study the phenomenon. [hidden image - please register] "It's a unique behavior. The Uluwatu Temple is the only place in Bali where it's found," Brotcorne told New Scientist. Brotcorne and her associates, who published their research in the journal Primates, spent four months in 2010 observing the monkeys living near the temple. The researchers found the two groups of macaques that spent the most time around tourists had the highest rates of "robbing and bartering" behavior, indicating they may have learned the ransoming technique from observing each other. [hidden link - please register] |
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The guardians of the Tower - Ravens of the Tower of London ‘If the ravens leave the Tower, the kingdom will fall…’ This group of at least six captive ravens which live at the Tower of London. Their presence is traditionally believed to protect the Crown and the tower; a superstition holds that "if the Tower of London ravens are lost or fly away, the Crown will fall and Britain with it". [hidden image - please register] Historically, wild ravens were common throughout Britain, even in towns, the tower being within their natural range. When they were exterminated from much of their traditional range, including London, they could only exist at the tower in captivity and with official support. [hidden image - please register] Local legend puts the origin of the captive raven population at the time of King Charles II (reigned 1660–85). Some historians believe the "tower's raven mythology is likely to be a Victorian flight of fantasy". Some of the ravens at the tower were specially bred in Somerset. According to folklore, wild ravens are thought to have inhabited the Tower for many centuries, supposedly first attracted there by the smell of the corpses of the executed enemies of the Crown. [hidden image - please register] These magnificent birds, large members of the genus Corvus, the crow family, respond only to the Raven Master and should not be approached too closely by anyone else. The ravens preside over four different territories within the Tower precincts. See if you can spot them on your visit. |
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Lion fights massive crocodile to rescue brother in Botswana ... A safari-goer in Botswana captured video of a lion rescuing its younger brother from an attack by a massive crocodile in a river. The video, filmed April 20 at Wilderness Safaris' King's Pool camp, begins with two male lions swimming out into the Linyanti river between Botswana and Namibia. [hidden image - please register] The filmer said the older, larger lion appeared apprehensive about going into the water with a large croc nearby, but ended up following its brother into the river. The crocodile swims toward the big cats and attacks the smaller lion, quickly dragging it under water. [hidden image - please register] The larger lion leaps onto the croc, causing it to lose its hold on the smaller feline, which quickly swims back toward shore. The larger lion and crocodile thrash around in the water before disappearing out of view. The filmer said the safari group initially feared the larger lion had been killed by the crocodile, but they soon spotted it climbing ashore on the other side of the river. |
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Alligator takes Memorial Day dip in Florida family's pool ... A Florida sheriff's deputy filmed state wildlife officials capturing a big alligator , who decided to arrange a swim in the pool. [hidden image - please register] The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office posted a video to Facebook showing Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers wrangling an alligator found swimming at the bottom of a Venice family's pool inside their screened-in porch. The video, filmed by Deputy Lori Clark, shows the alligator thrashing around as trappers use a lasso to pull it out of the pool. The post said the video should serve as a reminder to always "look before you leap. |
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Angry pedestrian gets instant karma ... A hapless pedestrian has become a global sensation after a dashcam clip of him yelling abuse at a motorist ended in laughter - when he accidentally walked into a post. Worse still, the embarrassment was captured on the motorist's dashcam. [hidden image - please register] The man has gone viral online - with 5 millions views on YouTube as the world laughed at his bad luck. The video begins with a car driving down a street in Adelaide, South Australia, towards an intersection. [hidden image - please register] The dashcam shows that as the car stops at a set of a traffic light a man walks across the street from right to left in front of the vehicle with his dog. But the pedestrian is not happy. He begins making rude gestures to the driver and screaming at him, all the while still walking across the street and not looking where he is going. He then walks straight into a lamppost on the other side of the street. |
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It took four years of lying on a riverbed for a photographer to capture this shot ... This photo, shared on [hidden link - please register] yesterday, shows a hungry Eurasian beaver swimming with a poplar branch, on her way to feed her pups in western France’s Loire region. Other people have taken photos of wet beavers before (this is the internet, after all), but this one is quite exceptional. And apparently, it was a tough shot for photographer Louis-Marie Preau to get. [hidden image - please register] It took four years to successfully capture this intimate scene. Each evening, wearing snorkeling gear and weights, he would lie motionless on the riverbed for two to three hours. Finally, one evening, his patience paid off. Preau had only just plunged into the water and positioned himself when this adult returned with a freshly harvested poplar branch to feed to its three young kits. |
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Polite Dane Max could not disturb the serene dream of a cat ... Sid the cat loves his afternoon catnaps and nothing is going to interrupt a good catnap, not even his 200lbs Great Dane buddy Max climbing into bed. [hidden image - please register] Please look at Max and have fun as he quietly tries to climb into bed so as not to disturb the cat. Max politely uses the middle of the bed without his step, so no to bother Sid's nap time. |
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Handler reads for the snakes magazines and plays football with them ... Abu Zarin Hussin, 32, from Pahang, Malaysia, became a professional snake handler while working in his local fire service. [hidden image - please register] He spends his days looking after cobras and carrying out activities with the snakes which some would think are impossible. [hidden image - please register] The handler educates people about snakes due to his lifelong experiences of looking after them. |
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Swan vs. Police Officer ... A Florida jogger captured video of an Orlando police officer's encounter with an aggressive swan that chased him in circles around his patrol SUV. [hidden image - please register] The video, recorded by Kelsey Wilkinson and posted to Twitter by her boyfriend, Darrell Harbin, shows the swan running after the Orlando police officer, who uses his patrol SUV as a barrier to protect him from the aggressive bird. [hidden image - please register] "I stopped to watch it and I just saw the cop running around his truck and I just stopped to film it," Wilkinson told WKMG-TV. "I thought it was hilarious. "She said the object of the swan's ire, identified as Officer Brad Miglio, appeared amused by the situation. "It was funny and I'm glad he thought it was funny, until the swan started freaking out on him," Wilkinson said. The department tweeted a video recorded from inside the SUV by Officer Alex Chase, who declined to come to his partner's rescue during the pursuit. |
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