Even as young adults, male chimps are ‘mama’s boys’

Young adult male Haden, 19, grooms his mother, Lita, who is his “best friend,” at Kibale National Park in Uganda.

 miamizsun wrote: 
Very cool, thanks. They just built one over one of the newer roadways here...There needs to be more.

Swearing parrots separated after telling folk where to go

Five African grey parrots at a Lincolnshire zoo believed to be a bad influence on each other

Five foul-mouthed parrots have been separated after learning to swear at a Lincolnshire zoo.

The parrots – named Billy, Elsie, Eric, Jade and Tyson – joined Lincolnshire Wildlife Park’s colony of 200 grey parrots in August. But soon after, they started encouraging each other to swear.

“We saw it very quickly – we are quite used to parrots swearing but we’ve never had five at the same time,” Steve Nichols, CEO of the wildlife park, told PA. “Most parrots clam up outside, but for some reason these five relish it.”

The parrots have since been distributed to different areas of the park so they do not “set each other off”.

No one had complained about the parrots, Nichols said, but they were separated for the sake of young visitors and in the hopes that they would pick up natural calls from the other African greys.

“People have come to us but they think it’s highly amusing, we haven’t had one complaint,” he said. “When a parrot tells you to fuck off, it amuses people very highly. It’s brought a big smile to a really hard year.”

The park is also home to parrot Chico, who made headlines in September after learning to sing a range of pop songs, including Beyoncé’s If I Were a Boy.

Bonobo ‘helicopter’ moms stand guard while their sons mate
Mothers introduce them to fertile females, then break up the mating attempts of other males

Dolphins Swimming in Bioluminescence

 Coaxial wrote:
 

i love that kruger sightings youtube channel

but yeah sometimes the food chain is brutal

 miamizsun wrote: 
Yeah, he stole it and then the troop ate it. Nature is a beast.

 kcar wrote:
 

that is too funny

made me smile

Dog-man volleyball team—pretty good. 


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capybara swan and cabbage

 R_P wrote:
 
These are not domesticated animals that should be pets. Don't forget what happened to Roy and he raised that kitty from nurse fed and was loved by it. If you haven't yet watched Tiger King on Netflix... it'll fascinate you.

 kcar wrote:
 

ok today is my day

We should hire someone to post here every damned day. Much-needed relief from the chaos around us. 

 R_P wrote:
 
A bit more agile than I imagined...

They seem very chill, but can get snippy when manhandled...