Video: Eagle Brings House Cat to Nest

Video: House Cat Stands Down Brown Bear

In one corner of the ring, we have a 400-pound bear who regularly kills moose just for fun. And in the other corner, we’ve got an 8-pound domestic animal that shits in a box. But this ain’t your run-of-the-mill alley cat, this is Vasya the Mighty: a fearless Russian feline determined to protect its people from a critter 50 times its size. Some cats get picked up by eagles, some pick fights with bears. Not all cats are created equal.

Video: Raccoon Attacks Eagle Fledgling in Nest

On May 23, a raccoon climbed into a bald eagle nest and wrestled a six-week-old eaglet to its death. The footage was captured by the Xcel Energy Fort St. Vrain eagle nest live feed. The 24-hour surveillance footage was live-streamed on YouTube. Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) said that wildlife officer Mike Grooms responded to investigate 90 minutes after the attack. “The camera showed a raccoon scaling to the top of the nest tree and grabbing...

Video: Stork Chick Ejected From Nest by Parents

Humans tend to root for the underdog. We love a comeback story. Our empathetic minds want to see someone fight against the odds and win. Animals? Not so much. Evolution does not favor the empathetic, it favors the well-fed. At first glance, it may appear cruel that this adult stork threw its chick from the nest. But it likely did so to ensure the life of the other four chicks. In a three-year study titled “Motives for Parental Infanticide in...