Racing Russian hamsters vs. a hamster wheel
When in nature, Russian hamsters can cover ten kilometers (6.2 miles) a night. As pets, they’re quite drawn to a hamster wheel. In this giggle-worthy clip from the BBC’s Pets: Wild At Heart, not one...
View ArticleWhat’s it like to film a baby sun bear?
Baby sun bears love to run, wrestle, and explore everything. And they really love to climb. In case there was any doubt, this rambunctious behind-the-scenes clip from the BBC’s Bears About the House...
View ArticleThe Power of Resilience: “Mental toughness is the secret to success”
British gold medal-winning sprinter Asha Philip didn’t start her athletic career as a world-class runner. From the age of four, Philip trained on a double mini-trampoline, winning World Junior Champion...
View ArticleCelui qui tombe (He who falls), Yoann Bourgeois’ turntable acrobatics
Six people try to make their way on a large rotating turntable, jostling for position, walking, running, balancing, and tripping over each other. Their world spins to My Way sung by Frank Sinatra. They...
View ArticleCheetah vs Greyhound, a speed test in slow-motion
At 70 miles per hour (113 kilometers per hour), cheetahs are the world’s fastest cat and the world’s fastest land mammal, so the world’s fastest dog, a greyhound clocked at speeds up to 45 mph (72...
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A Visual History of Sports, animated
What are the origins of our favorite sports? How long have we been racing, surfing, flying kites, or skateboarding? Watch this animation from The Atlantic for a peek at some of the popular sports...
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DANCE 10000, Generation Pep’s step-counting dance video
How many steps do you take in one day? In Dance 10000, nine-year-old Lilyana Ilunga clocks 10,000 steps by walking, running, and dancing her way to school, as well as fast-forwarding through a few...
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Metal animals run in stop-motion loops
Made with nuts, bolts, washers, and other metal bits. a rabbit runs to get a scratch under its chin. The looping animation, My Metal Bunny, was created by Georgia-based stop-motion animation director...
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The Arabian Saluki, one of the fastest dogs on the planet
For thousands of years, the Arabian Peninsula has been home to desert nomads. To survive in this harsh habitat, people needed to catch fast animals, like gazelle and wild hare. But they couldn’t do it...
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Two Atlas robots show off their parkour skills
Boston Dynamics‘ humanoid robot, Atlas, has come a long way from its 2013 debut. It’s no longer tethered to power, no longer stabilized to keep it from falling, no longer simply walking. Atlas is...
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“It’s nerve-wracking to watch a giraffe run for the first time…”
Baby Murchison is a rather skeptical-looking young Rothschild’s giraffe; he doesn’t want to go outside with the rest of the Chester Zoo giraffe herd in Chester, England. But the eager (and slightly...
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Stella, Queen of Leaves
“Stella loves every season. Winter has snow. Spring has mud. Summer has water. And fall has… LEAVES. Stella loves leaves. She loves to play in them. And she loves to jump in them to retrieve her ball.”...
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The Running of the Goats at Sunflower Farm Creamery
What does it sound like when 33 bucklings and 27 doelings run around a farm looking for their 22 mamas? This celebratory video from Sunflower Farm Creamery marked the “end of the 2021 kidding season...
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Storm the sheepdog gathers ewes of the hill
On a sunny day in the rural Scottish countryside, 27-year-old shepherd and stockman Sean the Sheepman heads out to gather ewes of the hill with his smart and trusty sheepdog, a border collie named...
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Can Moose the bloodhound find his human hiding 1/4 mile away?
Thanks to ultra-sensitive scent receptors, bloodhounds possess an extraordinary sense of smell that surpasses humans by at least 1,000 times. When a bloodhound sniffs something, scents that are...
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