This adorably short video was posted five months ago, but has only started to truly trend now, appearing on DailyOfTheDay, DailyPicksAndFlicks, HuffPost, and Neatorama.
Brian V was at the Waikiki Aquarium in Honolulu, Hawaii when he happened upon the endangered Hawaiian Monk Seal exhibit. One seal was spinning in place and now has become a viral star.
Most people are surprised to learn that baby otters don’t instinctually know how to swim when they are born. Ironically, the water animals have to teach their young how to swim, much like humans.
And similarly to people, the mother otter will seemingly drag their young to the water’s edge, and throw them in with a splash. It may look a little rough at first, but it’s really no different than signing your kid up for swimming lessons at the local pool or YMCA in the summer.
The Oregon Zoo has gone viral with this adorable video featuring their baby river otter Molalla. In less than a week, the video highlighting Molalla’s first ‘swimming lesson’ has accumulated over 300,000 views.
Dani Raske reports that a 6 year old endangered Rothschild giraffe named Petal gave birth last Friday to a happy, healthy baby at the Zoological Conservation Center in Greenwich, Connecticut. In this video taken only minutes after labor, the new calf stands for the first time.
Now, the new video has garnered over 250,000 views, and is featured on YahooNews, HuffPost, WashingtonPost, and RightThisMinute.
Animal lover Adam Cox posted this touching video at the start of the week, and already it has collected over 190,000 hits.
Honey the dog and Kwanza the four month old lion cub are two best friends seemingly scooped up out of an upcoming Disney film.
But no. This is real life at the Darling Downs Zoo in Australia.
The Oregon Zoo has gone viral with this adorable video of Eddie the Sea Otter. Eddie was rescued off the southern coast, and is now about 16 years old–nearly retirement age for an otter.
The veterinarian doctors noticed a little arthritis in his elbows after an x-ray, so to help relieve the tension and pain, the staff is training Eddie to play basketball in the pool.
The precious sea animal video is two weeks old, and already it has accumulated over 875,000 hits.
