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A young bison and a kangaroo at a New Jersey zoo have decided that species boundaries are a suggestion, and the footage of them hanging out together is pure serotonin. Nobody told these two they're supposed to be from different continents.
A woman doing crunches on her mat looks over to find her dog Bella beside her, doing her own tiny little side-crunches in perfect solidarity. The form is questionable. The commitment is elite.
A woman in Seattle filmed what she was certain was a cat, right up until it turned around and was very clearly a raccoon with an extremely unusual build. Five seconds of footage, millions of views, and a shout-out from Jon Stewart, who crowned him "a short king."
Billy the dog hears live classical music, and rather than fleeing the room, he plants himself down and asks for more. Commenters agree: the boy is simply enjoying the vibes.
An orphaned baby macaque at a small zoo east of Tokyo found comfort in a stuffed orangutan, and the world absolutely lost it — the toy sold out worldwide and IKEA shipped the zoo a whole donation of plushies. He is still there, still clinging, still undefeated.
