Elephant shoos leopard away with a blast of water [4 pictures]

As wildlife photographer Mark Müller was watching some animals around a watering hole in Namibia’s Etosha National Park, he noticed that some of the animals had gotten cautious and retreated for an unseen reason. Not the elephants, though. They were noisily splashing around and spraying water on themselves.

Then Müller and the elephants both saw why the other animals had gotten nervous. A leopard had over-confidently joined the crowd at the watering hole to take a drink.

The elephants gathered around it to intimidate it, but the cat didn’t seem to care, despite being minuscule in comparison to the surrounding beasts.

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“Bird to your mother!” — Funny and amazing babbling, beatboxing Parakeet

Disco the Parakeet has a lot to say and he’s just going to keep on saying it…with an occasional break to beatbox…

(via Reddit)

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Disturbing but amazing image of a snake and lizard killing each other

Usually when a fight ends in a draw the participants get to walk away. Not this time, though…

(source unknown)

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40 bald eagles descend on a pickup while its owner is shopping [pic & video]

In the town of Unalaska, Alaska a hapless pickup truck owner parked his vehicle in the Safeway parking lot and went in for some groceries. In his absence, more than three dozen bald eagles discovered the bags of fish product that were in the bed of the truck awaiting disposal.

Several people called the police who notified the owner and dispersed the birds with their siren.

Here’s footage of the aquiline revelry…

Read the full story from the area’s local news.

(via Hypervocal)

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Huge killer whales chase a speedboat, come almost close enough to jump in

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