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It’s hard to imagine one dog jumping rope, but 13? At the same time? That requires real talent and training. That’s why Uchida Geinousha, who trains dogs for the Super Wan Wan Circus has been awarded the Guinness World Record for dog handler to train the most dogs skipping rope at the same time.

Seagulls have been on quite a crime spray as of late, stealing everything from cameras to golf balls to hamburgers. In the video below, humanity was able to exert a bit of revenge on the thieving birds with a simple trick involving some french fries and a glass windshield. Watch the rats of the sky get trolled.

Pandas are pretty adorable when they just lay about or move around at a sloth-like pace. So when the rare bears actually do something exciting — like enthusiastically embracing the concept of a rocking chair, as panda Ying Hua does below —  it’s a must-see video.

Spirit the eagle, Auburn University’s mascot, took its traditional aerial tour around the bleachers of Jordan-Hare Stadium before the kickoff of Auburn’s football game against Mississippi State on Saturday. He was looking quite majestic in flight as the crowd of 85,000 cheered until … smack — Spirit crashed right into a glass-enclosed luxury box.

How did this moose manage to get stuck in a tree in a Gothenburg, Sweden suburb? One too many fermented apples.

Perhaps because birds never really have to use moving staircases, this confused, feathered fellow attempts to walk down the up escalator. The bird winds up going nowhere and thoroughly entertaining the couple who captured it on camera. Watch below:

If you think you’re having a lousy day, buck up. It’s about to get better. In this German-language news clip, lab chimps who’ve been caged indoors their entire lives venture outside for the very first time, reveling in the unfamiliar sensations of warm sunbeams and total freedom of movement. In other words, things the rest of us ingrates take for granted.

In the clip below, a mariachi band performing at a wedding in Connecticut’s Mystic Aquarium took a break from their set to give a nearby beluga whale a show.

Some may say that Texas fisherman Jason Kresse caught a shark, but when the 375-lb. sea creature jumped into his boat early last Monday, it kind of caught him instead. The 29-year-old Freeport resident was out fishing for a red snapper with two coworkers about 50 miles off the Gulf of Mexico coast when they felt something hit the side of the boat. A few seconds later, the mammoth Mako was thrashin

When I die and come back as something else, I'm SO coming back as a loved barn cat. Being a barn cat with a real home at your disposal might be the best life of all. This is Huntley Dahmer the cat. He lives in the southern Madison Valley and has the best life of any cat I've ever met.