Animals are Magical

[onawah]

Donkeys are one of my most favorite animals.
They are so comical and affectionate.
I just wish they didn't smell so bad!

[Harmony]

Posted by onawah (here)
Donkeys are one of my most favorite animals.
They are so comical and affectionate.
I just wish they didn't smell so bad!

Donkey's kept in a good space with natural food and places to roll in dust smell sweet. They don't have the oily smell of a sweaty horse as their bodies work differently, probably because many donkeys came from dry areas around the world. Even their droppings don't smell bad and in a few weeks are odorless and make good garden compost.


The spots where donkeys choose to use for urinating can smell very strong because they have a renal system that can extract all the moisture out and leave a concentrated urine with mineral content as well. If you had a very small area with a wee spot next to your window it would smell strong like many other animals that come from the dessert or places with low rainfall.

[onawah]

Good to know! Thanks!

Posted by Harmony (here)

Posted by onawah (here)
Donkeys are one of my most favorite animals.
They are so comical and affectionate.
I just wish they didn't smell so bad!

Donkey's kept in a good space with natural food and places to roll in dust smell sweet. They don't have the oily smell of a sweaty horse as their bodies work differently, probably because many donkeys came from dry areas around the world. Even their droppings don't smell bad and in a few weeks are odorless and make good garden compost.


The spots where donkeys choose to use for urinating can smell very strong because they have a renal system that can extract all the moisture out and leave a concentrated urine with mineral content as well. If you had a very small area with a wee spot next to your window it would smell strong like many other animals that come from the dessert or places with low rainfall.

[RunningDeer]

Aphids can clone themselves. Her babies are born already pregnant. In a week or two, they'll start giving birth to clones of their own.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=XmR6A18eAk8

[RunningDeer]

What does a roly poly have in common with a kangaroo?

We take a close look at how roly poly moms protect their eggs, nurture their babies, and pull off one of nature’s most surprising examples of convergent evolution.

She’s a Crustacean. She's a Mom. She's a Roly Poly (3:50 minutes)

Roly polies aren’t insects — they’re crustaceans, and they have more in common with kangaroos than you might think.

These land-dwelling isopods carry their eggs in a fluid-filled pouch on their underside, giving their young a tiny ocean to develop in until they’re ready to face the world.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=pmLHg_B8uoI

[rgray222]

It has been a long time coming, but it has finally started. Mexico has passed legislation to end dolphin shows and swim-with-dolphin programs and is in the process of relocating approximately 350 captive dolphins to seaside sanctuaries. The law, approved unanimously by the Senate in June 2025 and endorsed by President Claudia Sheinbaum, bans the use of marine mammals in entertainment, therapy, and captive breeding, requiring facilities to cease operations and transfer animals to natural coastal environments.



Key details of the mandate include:

• Immediate Ban: The use of dolphins in public performances, tourist swim programs, and for-profit therapy sessions is prohibited nationwide.
• Relocation Timeline: Facilities have an 18-month window to move dolphins from concrete tanks to sea pens; the deadline for this transition is December 2026.
• Current Status: While the law is in effect, some facilities have faced delays or enforcement challenges, with reports indicating that some shows may still operate as companies arrange for sanctuary transfers before the final deadline.
• Legal Basis: The reforms, often referred to as "Mincho’s Law" after a dolphin who died in captivity, align Mexico with other nations like Chile and Costa Rica that have banned marine mammal entertainment.

[Johnnycomelately]

Magic can be black.

Folks who hate atomic/nuclear power might think otherwise here, but it WAS a black bear!

Imagine his fam in India (from a different source’ title), land of tigers and leopards and sometimes ornery wild elephants, learning about this. Bet Canada seemed pretty safe until now, outdoors-wize.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/saskatoon/art...loration-site/

Man killed in Sask. bear attack identified as contractor at uranium exploration site

By Laura Woodward

Published: May 13, 2026 at 2:25PM EDT

The 27-year-old man killed in a bear attack in northern Saskatchewan was an independent contractor working at a uranium exploration site.

His name has not been released.

UraniumX Discovery Corp. said the worker was attacked on May 8 at its Zoo Bay property in the Athabasca Basin.

The site is in a remote area near the Northwest Territories border.


All work at the Zoo Bay property has been suspended while authorities investigate.

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The black bear was euthanized by a civilian on site, according to the Ministry of Community Safety.

The animal was taken to the Western College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan for a necropsy.

RCMP, the coroner service and conservation officers are investigating.

“This investigation is in the early stages,” the ministry said in an email to CTV News.

UraniumX CEO Esen Boldkhuu said the company is “deeply saddened by this tragic loss.”

“Our thoughts and deepest condolences go out to the family, friends and colleagues of the deceased.”

[Ravenlocke]

Crazy Vibes

Runaway horse found collecting orphan animals after miscarriage. A Montana rancher thought his mare had completely broken after losing her baby. For three days, she cried, barely slept, and refused to go near the barn where it happened. Then on the fourth day, she disappeared.Weeks later, the rancher saw a news report about a loose horse being caught on trail cameras with different orphaned animals. One camera showed her standing over a lost fawn. Another showed tiny fox kits walking beside her.

Experts were confused until the rancher recognized her markings and called in. That’s when they realized she wasn’t just wandering. After losing her own baby, the mare had been searching the woods for babies with no mother. When rescuers finally found her, she was lying in a field with an orphaned fawn curled against her legs. The rancher said, “She didn’t run because she was broken. She ran because she still had love left to give.”

https://x.com/CrazyVibes_1/status/2054703701324128532

[Ravenlocke]

Mr PitBull Stories

Off the coast of Portugal, a diver was working on underwater repairs when he noticed an octopus hovering nearby. At first, he didn’t think much of it — until the octopus started helping.

Each time the diver reached for a wrench, a bolt, or accidentally dropped a tool, one of the octopus’s tentacles would glide over, gently passing it back to him. It was as if he had a silent assistant from the deep.

When he returned to the surface and told his coworkers, no one believed him. So the next time, he brought cameras.

The footage showed exactly what he’d described — an octopus calmly handing tools to a human, working alongside him in perfect rhythm.

The video quickly went viral, capturing hearts around the world. And when asked about it later, the diver just smiled and said, “I’m just happy I had help down there.”

Moments like this remind us that intelligence doesn’t belong to humans alone. In the quiet depths of the ocean — and all across the natural world — other minds are watching, learning, and sometimes, lending a helping hand

https://x.com/MrPitbull07/status/2055008964384022598

[Johnnycomelately]

Posted by Ravenlocke (here)
Mr PitBull Stories

Off the coast of Portugal, a diver was working on underwater repairs when he noticed an octopus hovering nearby. At first, he didn’t think much of it — until the octopus started helping.

Each time the diver reached for a wrench, a bolt, or accidentally dropped a tool, one of the octopus’s tentacles would glide over, gently passing it back to him. It was as if he had a silent assistant from the deep.

When he returned to the surface and told his coworkers, no one believed him. So the next time, he brought cameras.

The footage showed exactly what he’d described — an octopus calmly handing tools to a human, working alongside him in perfect rhythm.

The video quickly went viral, capturing hearts around the world. And when asked about it later, the diver just smiled and said, “I’m just happy I had help down there.”

Moments like this remind us that intelligence doesn’t belong to humans alone. In the quiet depths of the ocean — and all across the natural world — other minds are watching, learning, and sometimes, lending a helping hand

https://x.com/MrPitbull07/status/2055008964384022598

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Did Octopus Really Help Diver in Portugal by Handing Him Tools? Fake or Real?

De-Reviews
8.63K subscribers

Oct 6, 2025

In this De-Reviews video, we expose the shocking truth behind the viral “Octopus Helping Diver” post that has taken social media by storm. It claimed that an octopus was spotted off the coast of Portugal handing tools to a diver during underwater repairs. While it sounds amazing, the reality is far different, it’s completely fake, AI-generated.

The image was only shared through social media posts and never appeared in credible news or scientific sources. It originated from a frame of real diving footage uploaded to YouTube on December 11, 2018, titled Saturation Diving 2018. That video clearly showed closed bell diving operations in the North Sea, containing no octopus. This proves the image was digitally altered with artificial intelligence (AI) or CGI tools, to insert the octopus into an existing underwater scene.

This case is a perfect example of how AI and digital tools are being used to create convincing but fake content.

Stay informed and avoid falling for viral hoaxes. Watch this De‑Reviews investigation to know the truth behind the octopus helping diver claim.

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Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1J54z6WIlsY

[RunningDeer]

Warning: not suitable for squeamish viewers.

HAPPY ENDING for the poor little guy.

Imagine having so many leeches that you can't see.

• The Waterfowl Sanctuary
• March 16, 2026

I don’t want to pull too hard and split the leech. It must come away cleanly.

Leeches don't like salt and so out came the saline sprayer. Every rescuer should have some in their kit bag.

I have performed this with several swans in my time and am familiar with the process. The cloth is not touching his eye but simply there to lift the leeches that have become unattached due to the saline spray.

Leeches apply an anaesthetic so the host is unaware - then an anticoagulant to prevent blood from clotting so they can continue feasting. He remained blind for a few days because of this infestation.

The cygnet was taken to our hospital and after a few days his vision returned.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=PC4jb5qfuHI

[RunningDeer]

Rescue pigs hearing music for the first time.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6zVJ4PO-aIc

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Non-Stop Rescues of Entangled Seals

It was madness at Pelican Point today. With so many seals suffering from various plastic entanglements, we needed the entire team deployed for a mass rescue operation.

We hate having to disturb the colony, but the sheer volume of plastic rubbish and netting around these necks gave us no choice.

Working as a high-speed 'field hospital,' we moved from one seal to the next as fast as humanly possible to minimize stress. While today was a success for those we reached, it highlights a grim reality: we are treating the symptoms, but how do we stop the cause? Where do we even start?

The seal rescue team from Ocean Conservation Namibia has rescued over 5000 seals from plastic pollution and ocean rubbish in the past 10 years.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=7Q7e-ODsTGc

[Johnnycomelately]

Some nice overhead vid of a gathering of wild Indian Elephants. This drone POV is a result of increased monitoring efforts, in the wake of a (then-recent) trampled-farmer incident.

I think they’re having an elephant version of a PowWow. Maybe doing an intervention on the one that doesn’t understand how humans can be brutal in reaction to such. Whatever. They are all too close to be just out there eating (if I was that big I wouldn’t stop eating during a meeting too).

After farmer trampled to death in AP, forest dept tracks wild elephant herd with drones

The New Indian Express
423K subscribers

Apr 27, 2025

A herd of wild elephants has been spotted in the Talakona Forest in Tirupati district of Andhra Pradesh. Earlier on April 25, a 65-year-old farmer, Siddayya, was trampled to death by a wild elephant near Kothapalli.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tp97Y-uoKDw

[RunningDeer]

Sea Stars Use an Army of Tube Feet to Find Their Next Meal

Starfish don’t have a centralized brain. They have a distributed nervous system. They coordinate movement and respond to its environment without a brain directing everything from one place. Movement is coordinated through hundreds of tube feet controlled hydraulically, i.e. they move using water pressure instead of muscles and bones

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UQzECQcSFKc

[Ravenlocke]

An osprey catching a large fish and flying off with it.


موسكو | 🇷🇺 MOSCOW NEWS
@M0SC0W0
Translated from Arabic
A breathtaking scene of a hunting osprey emerging from the depths of the water, carrying a massive pompano fish heavier than its own body, defying gravity with powerful wingbeats to soar away with its prey into the vast sky.

https://x.com/M0SC0W0/status/2057052527364112843

[rgray222]

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[Johnnycomelately]

TIL lol. Quite a marvel, this fam of Sea Slug types is, for two unique and magical traits:

One, they use chlorophylls from the plankton they eat to produce their own energy from sunlight. Wowsers! They even have various chemical and physical mechanisms to protect them from getting too much of what the lit chlorophyll produces. Different than how plants defend against the same hazard.

One study showed one or some of these critters living five months on sunlight (or maybe lab lights)!

Number two, they have a habit of cutting loose their body, from their head, whereupon the head grows a new body and carries on.

The hypothesis is that the chlorophyll is stored in the head (which in some types, the head has what look like prehensile rabbits’ ears), so that head can power its reconstruction spells that way.

My fav comment from the YT:

@rogerkearns8094
5 months ago

The animal that won't quit while it's a head.

4.7K 👍

L=16:24

Reference links are included as an invite, I haven’t validated them here. Nor there, but I’m on any keaners’ side. 👻🧐


This Slug Should Be Impossible

Real Science
2.07M subscribers

Nov 22, 2025

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Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=IH_uv4h2xYM

[RunningDeer]

A starling was hanging by its leg, and its mate was waiting nearby on the roof.

Fortunately the string was wrapped around each toe and the ankle and so it was evenly spread and nothing seemed damaged. Imagine hanging by a finger as opposed to a rope around the whole hand and wrist.

It was a pleasure to see it fly to the ground and spend several minutes catching up on the food on the lawn before flying over the fence to carry on his search in the neighbours garden.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tZ9jS2tcij0

[RunningDeer]

Watch instinct (and a little help from Mama) guide our 24 wood ducklings to “jump” into the world from their home 15 feet up. Will they all make it? Turn up the volume and "listen" to their story.

It's Wood Duck Jump Day!

• @2:46 - Mama signals to get ready.
• @4:02 - It’s go time.
• @4:19 - 1st little guy jumps
• @7:40 - Lots of trial and efforts before the last one jumps.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RwCCZlihKIw

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“I love you.”

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=m3tuOuPA8Dk

[RunningDeer]

Cormorant has a hook in its bill, and a second hook and line wrapped around its wing.

• @15:07 - The cormorant is caught after a long chase.
  
• @18:40 - Cormorant is on shore for treatment.

Another non waterfowl bird to rescue and this one was quite the workout.

A cormorant was seen on the banks of the caller's property, struggling with a hook and line around the wing. With such a restriction I stood a chance of capturing but it still took a long time. He was able to fly a little but then adopted their usual approach of diving and coming up somewhere different each time. Eventually he would tire and I would be there to help him.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=GUwCwT-RFcY

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Sing along Sloth

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=l5OmFwjtYW4