Animals

Archie McPhee has posted a great animated GIF of a real squirrel drinking from their Squirrel Coffee Cup, a miniature porcelain cup made just for our furry friends. They report that “people doubted that it would be used by an actual squirrel” but now they have the photographic proof!

We all think we know what kind of animal we'd be if we weren't human. Knowing your soul well enough to judge your spirit animal is hard, but we all know how we dress. Maybe our clothes say more about us than we really know. That's the idea behind Yago Partal's Zoo Portraits, where he matches various animals up with their (men's) spirit outfit.

New York based photographer Andrew Zuckerman just launched a new site featuring his growing library of animal photography. CREATUREbook.com includes over 400 images from the expanding catalogue along with taxonomical data for each of the species.

When Martin Usborne started the series"The Silence of Dogs in Cars", the photographer walked around car parks looking for dogs left inside cars but his quest wasn't too successful so he decided to entirely orchestrate each photo, stopping people who were having a stroll with their dogs, matching each animal with a car and location.

Here are some heartbreaking photos of some starving orangutans being rescued from their home in the Borneo Rainforest. The forest wasn't really a forest at all as it was razed for a palm oil plantation. The orangutan have been eating bark to survive while clinging on to remaining trees as bulldozers approached. The animals were rescued just in time by U.K. Charity international Animal Rescue and the Forestry Department in Ketapang, Southeast Asia. Luckily the Palm Oil Company contacted the forestry department first before tearing it all down. The orangutan are still in bad condition but continuing to eat and get into better health.

These baby zoo animals are simply too cute. These pictures will make you want to grab one of these animals and snuggle up with them. If you need a daily dose of cute animals then this one is for you.

Mmmm sexy...  “dogs wearing pantyhose” is a popular new meme in China. Hong Kong site Sharp Daily has reported that users on the Chinese social network Weibo “are uploading gag photos of their dogs wearing panty hose, joking how “sexy” the mutts look.”

Watch these adorable couple, man and his cat  MJ, enjoy bike rides together through the streets of Philadelphia. The footage was captured using a GoPro camera.

This poor leopard fell into a well when he was scouting for food at the Kamakhya temple in India. But was rescued by forest officers. See how it was.

Squirrels tend to get into the funniest positions and make the cutest expressions, it would be a shame not to meme them! Enjoy these cute critters!

Waxwings are a family (Bombycillidae) of passerine birds characterized by their soft, silky plummage. Some of the wing feathers have unique red tips where the shafts extend beyond the barbs; in the Bohemian and Cedar Waxwings, these tips look like sealing wax, and give the group its common name.

With the weather getting warmer, it’s time to get back outside and reconnect with the wildlife—and no place will let you get closer to the wildest of wild things than Lujan Zoo in Argentina. Located just outside Buenos Aires, Lujan Zoo provides zoogoers the opportunity to bottle feed a bear, cuddle a tiger, or rub noses with a lion, and, if these pictures are accurate, walk away un-mauled. While many visitors assert the animals are clearly drugged, the zoo insists the tameness is entirely natural, a product of raising each cub from birth and teaching them to be calm, permissive, and uninterested in eating humans. Since opening in 1994, there have been no reports of unexpected predation, but whether that perfect record is due to good training, luck, or bribery of authorities is hotly debated. Check out this extreme petting zoo below, and remember, the Lujan Zoo is one of the only places in the world where you can pet wild animals, an extremely dangerous activity that you should not take lightly and should never try outside the confines of such facilities.

Here's a little exercise for your eyes, try to find a dog in these pictures. "Spot the dog?" is the challenge being laid down by the pet owner behind these Where's Wally-style photographs.Andrew Knapp is hoping eagle-eyed viewers will have lots of fun finding Momo - his black and white border collie concealed within the images.

As much as I hate raccoons, this one is actually adorable. It must've been a musician in past life. This raccoon plays with a garden sprinkler and it looks as if it is actually strumming on a harp. The musical harp noises dubbed over the video really tie it all together.

If you take the story of Bambi and replace the deer with a polar bear you get the story of Kali. The story starts off sad with a native Alaskan Inupiat substance hunter named James Tazruk shooting a polar bear which he is allowed to do by federal law. After inspecting the bear he saw that it had been nursing. Tazruk then followed the mother polar bear tracks more than 1,200 feet until he found the polar bears den with her cub inside. Tazruk took the little bear cub by snowmobile to his home village 40 miles away and then contacted the Alaska Zoo. The zoo then welcomed in the cub who is now named Kali. In the summer Kali will be moved to the Buffalo Zoo where he will be raised with another polar bear cub named Luna.

Deciding on what kind of dog to get? Get this kind! Jumpy the dog performs amazing flips, jumps, and even skateboard tricks in this video uploaded to YouTube by Omar Muller.

Please watch this adorable music video for “Purple and Gold” by Brussels-based band Recorders took over a year to make but it was worth it as it features nearly 4 minutes of dogs acting like people.

Introducing: ‘Business Dog.’ Move aside corporate kitty because this dog is taking over! With this ‘Business Dog’ around, we don’t have to tell you twice who’s boss. ‘Business Dog’ is on the ball and unfazed by a ruff day. (Get it?? Like “rough” but…never mind.) This meme is perfect for you fans of puns and dog-humor! Check out our favorites below.

It’s April Fool’s Day today, so there’s a lot of silliness in the air. So what better time for some “derpy” dogs! For all you non “derpy” fans, the word basically means awkward, funny and plain old silly. We have no idea why, but dogs are particularly good at pulling off this look. They’ve got some sort of natural derpy talent and luckily for us, the results are totally hilarious and aww-worthy. Check out a few of our favorites below!

Odin Parker, a well-dressed German Shepherd dog, uses a spoon and his ‘hands’ to eat peanut butter out of a jar. You may remember when we wrote about dogs eating a meal and cookies with their hands.

Auckland, New Zealand-based photographer Cally Whitham takes artistic portraits of animals for her series titled Captive. The collection of images in the ongoing series presents wild creatures as attentive beings, calmly posing for the camera. From a gentle giraffe to a tame tiger, Whitham captures a vulnerable side to these animals that feels quite powerful and intriguingly human.

Great story of Ellis the Hawk. Check it out. This is one lucky Hawk.

Canada got a very special package, and a taste of international panda diplomacy on March 25 with the arrival of two "Very Important Pandas" at the start of a 10-year loan from China to two Canadian zoos.

What would you do if you went to buy a bag of mulch and when you got home you found a tiny baby squirrel in the bag? A squirrel so little that it was more of a fetus than a baby. Well Reddit subscriber Nadtacular had this happen to him and he was able to take care of the adorable baby squirrel and nurse it back to full health. The Squirrel now named Zip took four weeks to open its eyes and now at five weeks is fully aware and getting playful. What a cute story.

It seems like a bird dropped the fish while flying over Long Island. This shark landed right in the middle of a parking lot...Pretty Strange.

Meet the new Instagram star puppy Sir Charles Barkley or "Barkley" for short. This French bull dog has become and instant social media favorite and devoted fans are starting to follow the dogs every move. Look at this cute dogs scrunched up face, how could you not fall instantly in love. Barkley was born last may and lives in Seattle Washington. Check out the pictures of this new Instagram star.

Tardar Sauce or as you probably know him "Grumpy Cat" has been in a bad mood for a long time now. His bad mood has seemed to spread to other animals. His now infamous glare has now infected dogs, fish, birds, cows, and all kinds of critters. Here are some grumpy animals that might be even more grumpy than Tardar sauce.

Maverick Arts Publishing has created a new calendar depicting guinea pigs going for gold at a huge sporting event like the Olympics. The Guinea Pig Games 2013 calendar features the furry creatures competing in events such as hurdles, swimming, show jumping and cycling.

Call it skill, luck or just being at the right place at the right time. Chris McLennan is an international award winning travel and adventure photographer who's captured some truly amazing photos of great white sharks breaching. The ocean around Seal Island, in False Bay, South Africa, is the only place in the world where the sharks breach when they hunt their prey, which in this case is the Cape Fur seal. According to National Geographic, full breaches, like the one shown above, are rare because they take up so much energy. South Africa's waters are full of baby seals so sharks have learned to attack from below with incredible speeds, which propels them out of the water as they snap up their next meal.

World Wildlife Fund has published a top ten list of endangered species, which includes the Tasmanian devil, Javan rhinoceros, and the Asian elephant. Twenty-five species of monkeys, langurs, lemurs and gorillas are on the brink of extinction and need global action to protect them from increasing deforestation and illegal trafficking. Help protect their future by visiting WWF to see what you can do to make a difference for our planet.

Cats are the best, and also they are the worst. But mostly the best. Here are some Funny Illustrated Truths About Cats. Enjoy!

Photographer Yago Partal has created these ridiculous Zoo Portraits of animals all dressed up in human clothes. This koala here is my favorite.

While this video shows one cat being a deadly predator, stalking an unaware bird, his friend is slightly less well-versed on how to act in this type of situation.