Why School-Shooting Episodes Need To Stop
Glee is being criticized for its school-shooting episode, but “Shooting Star” is only the latest in an increasingly misguided genre.
Glee is being criticized for its school-shooting episode, but “Shooting Star” is only the latest in an increasingly misguided genre.
OH MY GOODNESS.
“Seriously, enough already.”
Fuzzy wuzzy was an elephant you guys!
An annual post-holiday tradition at the Berlin Zoo.
So maybe it’s not the Mona Lisa, but it’s still amazing.
The Amboseli Trust for Elephants came across an elephant calf who was stranded in a well in Kenya and saved him by scaring his mother a safe distance away and then pulling him out using ropes affixed to their truck. After that part, you will start crying uncontrollably at your desk.
Anchali is an Asian elephant who was born in Berlin on just three days ago! She is ridiculously cute and here are her ten best photographs!
Tuluba got to feast on a “cake” made out of delicious fruit and vegetables, for his second birthday at the Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna. “Alles Gute” translates to “All The Best.”
Wait….wait up! WAIT UP!!
And there is nothing you can do about it. (via tastefullyoffensive.com)
Not cool man. You know this is BYOB.
The video, via Oxfam America, is calling on Washington to stop wasting food aid money. The elephant’s a man, and the donkey’s a woman, btw.
You don’t see this every day. An elephant named Baby escaped from his keepers and went for a run through a parking lot in Ireland.
This is all real, no film trickery, post-production or hidden cuts — Peter’s just a very clever elephant.
He’s right behind you, Callista…RUN!!!! These children are now forever scarred.`
This will melt your cold heart. Baby Mumba is currently chilling at the Royal Amsterdam Zoo.
The rare sight of an elephant swimming in the ocean was spotted in Mozambique this week, and recently there was a story about an Asian elephant that swims as a sea taxi in the Indian Ocean. It helps to have a built in snorkel!
Reason one: See video. Reason two: See reason one. (via The Daily What)
Is that you, Horton?
When I sneeze all over myself, people think I’m disgusting or coming down with a zombie virus. When animals sneeze all over, it’s a Youtube goldmine. Adorable double-standards!
It’s a sad day when you hear another species has gone extinct. According to USA Today, the African Black Rhino has been officially declared extinct and two other subspecies of rhinoceros are going down that same path. Read the whole story at USA Today. (via usatoday.com)
See? Our species isn’t always awful. Following in the prosthetic footsteps of Motala, this is Mosha. An organization called Friends of the Asian Elephant provided Mosha with an artificial limb after she lost her leg to a landmine in Thailand.
I wish elephants had LiveJournals. Every entry would be about feeling fat, and being the only elephant in the room.
Now that’s adorable. (via.) Watch Video ›
They just kind of awkwardly put their butts on each other until one of them falls down. Aww. (via ziza.qip.ru) View Media ›
I am dead from adorable overdose. Keepers at the Nairobi Elephant Nursery created a custom slicker to keep Shukuru dry and warm.
Meet Motala. She lost her leg after stepping on a land mine in Thailand in 1999, but learned to walk again with a temporary prosthesis. Her keepers have just given her a new longer-lasting leg. I hope it last for ears! (Much more at The Huffington Post.) (via huffingtonpost.com) View List ›
The perks of being a pachyderm.
This is horrifying. And get this: Apparently every year hundreds of people across India die when wild animals wander into cities because their natural habitats shrink and they have to range farther for food. View List ›