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An orphaned baby macaque at Japan's Ichikawa City Zoo was given a Djungelskog plush as a stand-in mom, and the way he clings to it has melted the entire internet. IKEA sold out of the toy and zoo attendance doubled.
A two-thousand-pound southern elephant seal flops into a Tasmanian town twice a year purely to flatten bollards and peer through screen doors. One cone-toppling clip has over fifteen million views.
A short-spined raccoon in Ballard stretching his stubby self across a sidewalk before waddling up a flight of stairs, filmed by Kiana Hall. Eight million views, city murals, and an official Seattle proclamation later, he's a folk hero.
Filmed in Kunming, Yunnan, a school of koi and a raft of geese drifting around each other in complete harmony. Nothing happens and that's exactly the point.
The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards released their video entries: a chipmunk losing a wrestling match with a peanut, a heron surfing a hippo, a penguin refusing to get in the water.
