animal videos

When this raccoon spots a bear closing in, it smartly makes the decision to flee from the much larger mammal. Watch the little fellow’s athletic leap to safety below:

A dog with suspiciously human-like hands is able to play a jaunty tune on the piano. Check out what this musically talented (and well-dressed) German shorthaired pointer can do below.

In yet another amazing tale proving some animals are more compassionate than human beings, we humbly submit Jolie, the heroic mama cat. Jolie calls England her home, and when she was pregnant, some cruel dolt tossed her out of a moving car. She survived, and a kind soul fed her and eventually confined her in a rural area before calling the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. R

Typically, surfers will do just about anything to avoid a great white shark. But compassion entered into the picture when a baby great white shark washed up on shore in Venice Beach, Ca. over the weekend.

Though it takes him a little while to figure out the proper plan of attack, a dog named Stubs is able to climb a tree in order to retrieve a stick his owner put up there. Good boy! Check out the industrious pooch in the video below.

Don’t taunt a sheep unless you want to end up getting rammed (pun intended) like the girl in this video. This sheep goes nuts after a nasty little urchin tosses a coconut at its head. Luckily for the rude girl the sheep’s ramming instincts have preceded the development of his horns. Check out some retribution, sheep-style, in the video below

A couple of pint-sized bear cubs stopped traffic in Yosemite National Park recently when they staged a playful wrestling match right in the middle of the road. Nearby motorists reacted to this adorable scene by saying things like “I want one,” and “Oh, please come to my car.” Luckily, nobody acted on these impulses because — as you can see in the video below — mama bear was carefully watching her

It’s hard to be a puppy. All that cuteness and people always cooing “awwww!” at you and having little puppy paws that make many folks just want to eat you up. Sometimes you simply have to take a nap to escape it all. So you cuddle into a warm lap, and what happens? You get the hiccups. And then your humans think you’re even more adorable, so they grab a camera and film the whole thing and put it o

It’s unclear if this cat allowed a beetle to climb atop its head because of an affinity for the enormous bug, or because it is just too tired and lazy to deal with the bold encroachment. It’s probably the second reason, but it’s fun to think that a cat and a beetle could beat the odds and be best friends.

When we last checked in with the Jedi Kittens they were engaging in an intense light-saber battle on the living room couch. In the felines’ latest clip, they’ve taken to the skies in a re-creation of the classic X-wing vs. TIE Fighter space battle from ‘Star Wars.’ Watch Jedi Kittens Strike Back below:

Seagulls have been on quite a crime spray as of late, stealing everything from cameras to golf balls to hamburgers. In the video below, humanity was able to exert a bit of revenge on the thieving birds with a simple trick involving some french fries and a glass windshield. Watch the rats of the sky get trolled.

It’s hard to imagine one dog jumping rope, but 13? At the same time? That requires real talent and training. That’s why Uchida Geinousha, who trains dogs for the Super Wan Wan Circus has been awarded the Guinness World Record for dog handler to train the most dogs skipping rope at the same time.