Video - Piling Food On Very Patient Pets In Japan

If you've ever seen a Japanese game show, you know they try to be as novel, clever and outrageous as possible, always incorporating a bit of self-torture and humiliation in their on-screen antics. Here we see some very well-disciplined animals that are having food piled up on or around them. The goal is to see how much food you can place near the pet before the pile comes tumbling down.

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Micro-Photos: The Eerie World Of Tiny Things

Wired magazine offers a collection of the world's best images taken through a microscope. Sifted from over 35 years of scientific photography.

www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/10/photomicrography/all/1

How To Keep Your Cat Off The Counter

Blender Defender is one person's inventive solution to keep his cat off the kitchen counter. The creator of this behavior-correcting system rigged together several pieces of hardware to produce an effective deterrent to his overly-curious pets. For the most part, it requires a motion sensor, a blender and a strobe light. The site will show you the rest. If nothing else, you'll love the videos and dream of having one of these items at your command. "Down Kitty!"

www.plasma2002.com/blenderdefender

Weird Dog Haircuts And Dye Jobs

Three sites showing the crazy ways people decorate their canine companions. Good Lord!

www.dogguide.net/blog/2008/05/no-im-not-kidding-15-photos-of-dogs-with-dye-jobs

declubz.com/blog/2009/03/26/weird-dog-award-or-it-seems

geniusbeauty.com/humor/bizarre-dog-haircuts

The Trunk Monkey - We All Need One

A series of 4 commercials from the Suburban Auto Group that show the clear advantages of having a trained monkey in the rear compartment. Very funny!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-fB34sTmls

Spricket24's "Glowing Monkeys"

I simply like listening to this girl. She's funny. Fortunately, she talks about stuff I am interested in. Here she goes on about how scientists have introduced a special gene into monkeys that make them glow in the dark. You remember the glowing bunnies, right?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQU3saOisNw

Animals Battling For Survival Along An Africa River

The so-called "Battle At Kruger" video chronicles a life and death encounter between water buffalos, lions and crocodiles in the wild. An extremely riveting eyewitness account of survival along an African river, you'll see raw animal behavior being fully expressed. Take a look to see who's left standing in this rollercoaster, back and forth, edge of your seat adventure.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM

Exercising With Human Poodles

I'm just not sure what to think about this video. It's certainly an odd one. Here, a young woman conducts an exercise class where the participants are dressed up in poodle costumes.

Japanese Monkeys Working In A Restaurant

This video report by the BBC, shows how monkeys in Japan have been trained to work in restaurants as staff members.

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7654267.stm