you can feel the cronch!

cooled down babies!

I love how one of them just runs off with a chunk of ice!

Awwww!

Someone had a lot to say this morning…

A Giant Egg's Bizarre Hatching
Dinosaur hatching time (the dinosaur is an emu)

Poultry can get this splayed-leg condition as well, and the treatment is the same: create a way to brace the legs in a normal position for some days while the muscles strengthen!

Incredible first look at a baby wolverine 🥹 | Mammal...
BABY

Emperor penguin chicks jump off a 50-foot cliff in A...
the twittering noises aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Common Genet in Spain foraging at night
common what now??

Miz_Bluebird for absolutely no reason at all I feel you should see this

every so often I am presented with an animal I did not know or remember existed, and it's great ^^

case In point:Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks with Least Bittern App...

Right after I saw your post here, I saw a new-to-me critter on Twitter!

Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) on X

Eeee! What a cool twitter critter!

Its face is so cute! And it's a flying squirrel, which is wild to me for an animal that big!

Yeah! I just can't get over how neat it is! It's so big! It looks like a candy cane! It's so cute! Look at it go!

Yeah!! I really like it!

So bouncy and brave!~

Yeah, me too, what a neat friend!

A Genet's Tale - Go Wild

WHAT A GOOD CREATURE

thank you for bringing me it, what a lovely catmouse

! They are SO CUTE! They felt fossa-adjacent to me and I immediately thought of you<3

I love how they climb

there are so many other cool animals in this video too, thank you

Hand Feeding & Playing With A Friendly Platypus

CANTO da MARRECA CABOCLA 🦆
THEY TWITTER

Baby Emus Swimming for their First Time!
unrestrained summer fun

rofl the genet video opening tho

voiceover: "its heart is wild and fierce"
video: OMG LOOK AT THESE TINY PEETS

YES

I have other things to get back to on here but THIS JUST IN: PLATYPUSES CAN CARRY STUFF WITH THEIR TAILS

Baby Platypus Caught on Camera

That's so cool!

Giant Mola Molas Spotted Deep Offshore American Samo...long and flat c:

Wee platypus is so cute and clumsy

it really is; I love it so much!

Hen Crowing
This is a REALLY good crow! A lot of times In crowing-hen videos they don't have the knack yet, but she's really got it!

It sounds like they are doing a call and response with others?

They are! Roosters do this all day. If one feels like crowing, every other rooster in earshot will respond within a moment or two, and they go back and forth for a bit until they're satisfied.

I think this comes from their origins as birds which generally live in small flocks and walk more than they fly. They want to know where the other local flocks are, that they're not encroaching on each others' territory, and that if there's trouble in any particular direction, there's another flock that will encounter it first and make noise about it.

Hen cackling is also a call-and-response; hens have to go off for about an hour or two every day or so to lay an egg, and while they're doing that, the flock might move off out of sight. When they're done laying, they cackle, the rest of the flock cackles back, and they know where to go.

Since they're not usually flying around or observing the area from tall vantage points, they do this to keep in touch.

See that actually makes sense and sounds very practical

So that people will get upset about Hens crowing in a back yard

They're very practical birbs. Except when they're eating styrofoam because cronchy.

*It is too bad

Apparently speech to text was having a moment there

<3

A lot of areas have zoning excluding roosters as noise nuisances, but hens are honestly also really loud even when they don't crow.

From what I understand most birds in captivity are

Hens crowing is not super common - I never saw it in over a decade of raising chickens - but the internet allows a lot more documentation of behaviors like this.

And yep, if birds don't have enough to do (or even if they do), they'll make noise for enrichment like anyone else!

All of this is so cute <3

Animals are endlessly good

They really are! 💖

Jiggles Our Crowing Hen
This seems to be more usual for a crowing hen; you can tell what she's doing from the way she arches her neck. What I wonder is whether she has been exposed to a regular rooster-crowing noise or is in an all-hen environment and is making it up from scratch.

I'd thought it had to do with physical differences (roosters have specialized ear canals which close during crowing to protect their hearing; hens don't, so I thought crowing hens stop early because it's so loud) but the previous hen's crow suggests it's not that simple.

Someone needs to CT-scan more chickens to get to the bottom of this conundrum.

19 Quail Chicks Drinking on a Hot Day
stay hydrated, folks<3

babbies

cheepy smols!

Q U A I L L L BABS

NINETEEN TEENIES IN A ROW!<333