This is probably one of the most disturbing forms of entertainment for people in Western countries. It’s basically animal cruelty. On the other hand, in countries like Indonesia and India street monkeys are completely normal. Poor citizens dress up little monkeys like dolls and train them to act like humans. The monkeys have a chain [...]

You have maybe heard about the crazy Macaque monkey that stole a photographers camera to take photos of himself. If not, here is the story: Visiting a national park in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, award-winning photographer Mr Slater left his camera unattended for a while. Nearby a female black macaque monkey was attracted to it. She [...]

We know how dinosaurs looked like, and some of us have seen skeletons of them at museums, but how cool would it be if we could see life sized models of them? That actually exists, believe it or not. In “Valle de la Prehistoria” that is located near the city of Santiago de Cuba there [...]

Anatoly Konenko is a Siberian craftsman that is responsible for the smallest aquarium in the world. It is so small that it’s only 30 x 24 x 14 mm and it about contains 10 ml of water. It’s obvious that normal fish can’t fit in it, so it’s made exclusively for small baby fish that [...]

This couple is inseparable, a baby hippo and a tortoise have found love. They have to be the strangest couple ever, but they eat, sleep, swim and play together. The funny thing is that they are almost the same size, the baby hippo is still little and the tortoise or land turtle tend to get [...]

Seeing an ant be born is like watching a whole process of nursing and cleaning going on. The ants really help each other to come out of the cocoons they are born in. In most ant species only the queen ant lays eggs. The males she mated with soon die, and she only mate once. [...]

You know paintings of old generals and old military leaders. Try switch up their faces with bird faces, like pigeons for example – hilarious! Artist Samantha Zaza created illustrations where she painted important uniforms that could belong to any known general, and painted in bird faces. The birds look so serious and some look even [...]

It is sad how many cities tend to “get rid” of homeless dogs and cats, because they obviously don’t want them to be loose. In Kiev, the capital of Ukraine the homeless animals are lucky, because they have their own shelter where they can get something to eat, and have shelter for the night, and [...]

There is something great about black-and-white photos. They make the picture look more artistic in a way. Here is a selection of several black-and-white animal photos taken out in the wild. They are so amazing that it would be a shame not to print them and put them in frames. We seem to forget how [...]

Hobbiton is known as the little village in the Lord of the rings trilogy, where the Hobbits are living in small houses. In real life that place is called Matamata and is located in New Zealand. After shooting the movie, the little village became a tourist attraction, and the reason for that is not only [...]

A man’s best friend. You got to love dogs! They are always there for you, so playful, so happy and curious. But what has happened with this dog? This must be the saddest dog ever, and the cutest because of his little furry sweater. The breed is the famous Pug or Puglet, and the wrinkles [...]

Have you even wonder how big butterflies can be? Well, pretty big. Some of them rich size of human head.

Fishes are strange enough as they are, but what about fishes with hands? Weird! The pink handfish, as it is called, is a part of the handfish family, and is last seen in 1999. It is now one of the newly named species of the handfishes, among nine others. This very odd fish doesn’t swim, [...]

We are all used to see different kind of monkeys at the zoo, mostly the furry chimpanzees, but have you ever seen a hairless chimpanzee? You need to travel to Mysore Zoo in India to see that: a hairless chimp called Ashes. The strange thing about it is that he was born with a lot [...]

We have all seen glowing stars on the sky at night, but what about seeing stars under the ground? You get the chance to do that in the Waitomo Glowworm Cave on the North Island of New Zealand. Of course the “stars” are not real; they are glowing worms that is hanging from the ceilings [...]

Most people do fear these little creatures called spiders even if some of them are harmful. Still there are several that are dangerous, and one of them is the hobo spider from North America, also known as Tegenaria Agrestis, that belongs to the group of funnel web spiders. What’s special about this kind of spiders [...]

Aquariums have always been a popular item, whether it’s for decoration or just for “pet purposes”. They are to be found in apartments, restaurants, hotels, malls and several other places, they are joyful and pretty to the eye, and come mostly in a square shape, but there are exceptions. This guy who owns a café [...]

They are not alive and they cannot attack you but still they are scary as hell and amazing to observe. The backbone of the snakes is made up of many vertebrae attached to ribs. Humans have around 24 ribs and 33 vertebrae but snakes can have from 100 up to 400 vertebrae with many ribs [...]

For some people painting with regular paints seems not to be enough, like for Chris Trueman from California who has became famous by his unusual painting but the price of his fame was pretty big. He had to kill 200,000 ants to create his weird painting of his younger brother. We are not going to [...]

Who doesn’t like monkeys? Sometimes weirdos, irritating but always entertaining. Jill Greenberg took one step further and made some photos that are really unusual. Who knows how much time she needed but  – mission accomplished.  Her goal was very simple: Place a monkey in front of camera and wait until they make some funny and [...]