As a friend pointed out, it’s weird to freak out about an animal in a zoo — that you came to see! — doing what it does naturally. Maybe this can be read as a metaphor for our own consumption habits. But still, gnarly.

Zounds.

“Fearless.”

I’m sorry, this is literally insane. Not for pre-breakfast viewing.

Have there really been no sloth posts on consblog?

baby boom.

Maybe NSFW (in the parlance of our times)?

NY Times doesn’t seem to want to embed videos, but check out this great video on the new open season on wolves (thanks Piper, and as she points out, very relevant if you were in attendance last night / have seen Milking the Rhino).