So you’re sitting down for a relaxing lunch or dinner and you get your drink orders…from monkeys? Believe it or not, at the “sake house” restaurant Kayabuki (in the Miyukihoncho part of Utsunomiya, North of Tokyo) has two in-house waiters that do help out. The two monkeys, named Yat-chan and …
Measuring less than 3 centimeters in size, Jorunna parva sea slugs, affectionately nicknamed “sea bunnies” are one of more than 3,000 species of mollusks typically found in the Western Indo-Pacific region, most notably off the coast of Japan. These shell-less, gender-less slugs come in all shapes and colors–but don’t let the …
Okay, your cat spends 20 hours of each day snoring, or stretching and then eating, and then going back to snoring. But that doesn’t mean your precious Bella, Tigger, Chloe, Shadow, or Oliver (the top 5 most popular cat names), doesn’t have a driving need to, well, chill out and …
With each of the 8 Harry Potter movies grossing hundreds of millions of dollars each, it seems as if no one can get enough of them–even 15 years later! Daniel Radcliffe, the actor who played Harry Potter in each movie, was recently honored for his acting work by receiving a …
People love hedgehogs. First, they’re adorable (obviously). Second, they make great, friendly pets. But did you also know that they can win awards and be champion show “hedgies”? On top of that, your beloved, round pets are so important that they have a military tactic named after them? No matter what your reason …
To show how easy it is for drivers to steer Volvo’s new monster truck (Volvo FMX, a 15-ton construction vehicle), Vice president Lars Terling had his crew rig a hamster wheel in the truck cab and let a tiny rodent named Charlie navigate the vehicle up a narrow quarry road …
Over in Colorado Springs, KDRO news reported that a woman, who is remaining anonymous due to online backlash, saved the life of her sick, dying puppy by breastfeeding it back to health. “I just felt like he just had an hour left. That’s how weak he was, he wasn’t moving …
Tens of thousands of Eurasian harvest mice would die every year without the help of the Wimbledon Tennis Club and 1,000’s of used tennis balls from the annual championship. The Eurasian harvest mouse is a tiny, adorable rodent weighing in at around 4 grams (for comparison, an American nickel weighs …
Bees are in incredibly important part of virtually every aspect of nature. In addition to pollinating flowers, Bees also are largely responsible for the pollination of nearly one-third of all the food that we eat, including apples, broccoli, pumpkins and much more. In fact, “their role in producing better quality …
It looks like ladies don’t need a man, after all. Well, lady snakes, that is. To their surprise, the staff at the Louisville Zoo welcomed 6 new reticulated python babies in 2012 from a mother snake, which actually wasn’t the weird part. What was more surprising was that the mother snake, …
