Archive for 'Animals'
Polite Bear Waves Goodbye
Politeness counts, even among bears. And with over four million hits, this video, of a polite Kodiak bear at Olympic Game Park in Washington state is all the rage online. I have nothing to add, other than, wow, this bear is really polite.
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Posted: December 17th, 2011 under Animals.
Tags: animals doing silly things, kodiak bear, Olympic Game Park, polite bear waves goodbye
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Vulture Rams Paraglider Over Himalayas; Both OK But Russian Guy Cusses
He’s Russian and he’s in a mid-air dogfight resulting in an unplanned eject. We’ve seen that one before. But in the history of aerial dogfights, this one’s a first. And the video has gone viral.
The gist of it: Russian paraglider cruises over the Himalayas. All’s groovy, the video’s awesome. Then it happens – the guy [...]
Posted: November 1st, 2011 under Accidents, Air Extreme, Animals.
Tags: aerial dogfight, Himalayas, paraglider, paraglider collides with vulture, pissed-off raptor, raptor, territorial, vulture
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Cougar Attacks Toddler in Pacific Rim National Park
Pacific Rim National Park isn’t the most forgiving of places along the coast of Vancouver Island, and this week a Canadian family learned that the hard way, in the form of a cougar attack on their 18 month old boy.
The good news is that the little guy is OK. Authorities have been tracking the cougar [...]
Posted: September 3rd, 2011 under Accidents, Animals, Backpacking.
Tags: cougar attack, cougar attacks toddler, Kennedy Lake, Pacific Rim National Park, Ucluelet
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Cat Walks With Owner From Miami to Argentina
Wait for the collective “awwwww”. This is one of most heartwarming travel tales you’ve heard for a while. Simply put, a man and his girlfriend, Guillaume and Laetita, decided to walk from North America to Argentina. Along the way they encountered Kitty, a friendly cat in the streets of Louisiana. Kitty took a shying to [...]
Posted: August 10th, 2011 under Animals, Backpacking, Inspiring.
Tags: animals doing silly things, Argentina, backpacking cat, Kitty the backpacker, Louisiana, turnoftheworld.com
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Aro the BASE Jumping Terrier
Dog Power!!! Base Jumping is an art form and, done correctly, is one of the greatest thrills of life…so why should humans get all the fun? A couple of Norwegian girls and their pooch Aro a spunky terrier, had nothing better to do one day, and Aro seems to show an affinity for [...]
Posted: May 14th, 2011 under Animals, BASE Jumping.
Tags: animals doing silly things, Aro the dog, base jumping dog, Norway, terrier
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Polar Bear Greets Skier
What do you get when a professional skier happens upon a polar bear on a ski jump? A video that’s garnered over a million hits. Bear with the amateurish video, cause the brief encounter is so worth it. The skier looks petrified, but the bear’s more like WTF?
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Posted: April 16th, 2011 under Animals, Skiing.
Tags: Norway, polar bear and skier, ski jump
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Right Whale Jumps Into Boat
Now there’s something you don’t see every day. What you’re looking at is a southern right whale breaching. Unfortunately for the couple in this sailboat, it’s breaching into their boat! The couple survived, but no word on the whale. One of the hazards of sailing around Cape Town I guess. The full story is at [...]
Posted: July 21st, 2010 under Accidents, Animals.
Tags: Cape Town, OOPS!, sailing
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Golden Retriever Surfs For Fellow Creatures
Now this is just plain cool. Meet Ricochet. She looks like a dog. She eats like a dog. She surfs like…Kelly Slater. Well that might be a stretch, but Ricochet the Golden Retriever has become something of a YouTube sensation, surfing to raise funds for various charities, including orphaned animals and a quadriplegic surfer. As [...]
Posted: July 7th, 2010 under Animals, Inspiring, Surfing.
Tags: animals doing silly things, helpers
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Brutus the Wakeboarding Pooch
This one’s just too good to pass up. A wakeboarding dog. He looks right at home on that board!
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Posted: June 23rd, 2010 under Animals, Wakeboarding.
Tags: animals doing silly things, wakeboard, white water
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