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Meerkats are active and social animals, they live in groups that can include as many as 30 individuals. Groups are called mobs, and each mob may consist of up to three families living together.

Each family group consists of a breeding pair and their offspring. Meerkats care for their family members, members have rotating designated roles, stand upright on rocks or termite mounds—using their tails for stability—and scan the horizon for predators such as hawks, eagles, or jackals. Meerkats sleep in a single furry pile. They are considered one of the most cooperative mammals on the planet.

I would like to share with you the lovely,funny,beautifully,weirdly,marvelously moments of animals. Animals have lives that are truly worthy of learning,curiosity and amazement. I love animals and I think you are like me. Welcome to my channel.

Woman pushes huge bear off a wall to protect her dogs

Incredible video shows 17-year-old Hailey Morinico fend off a massive bear in her backyard by shoving it off a wall after she found it swiping at her mom’s service dog and other pups on Memorial Day.

Lakomi is an upper-mid content wolfdog who lives in a sanctuary. She was found surviving in the wild at 8 months old, however it quickly became apparent that she had been bred and partially raised in captivity. At the time of her rescue she was wearing a harness intended for an 8 week old. Her skin had grown over the harness and removing it took hours of surgery and months of medication to fight an infection that nearly took her life.

When I first got to the sanctuary I was told that she was crazy and wouldn’t ever be socialized. Her enclosure has fences that are 14 feet high because she would routinely jump or climb up 12 foot fencing and hang by her jaw at the top.

Since I began working on socialization with her that behavior has stopped. She took about two months of daily exposure before she would allow physical contact, but once that wall came down she quickly became playful, sweet, loving, and my personal favorite animal in our charge. Lakomi is a gorgeous example of the redemptive power of love, and being able to know her is one of the greatest privileges of my life.
A side note: the fur on her belly is thin because she had been spayed several months prior to this video. She is entirely healthy 🙂

The kitty choose to sleep and rest next to this swing while feeding on a deer kill nearby. After two days she discovers it moves then proceeds to play with it before lying back down to sleep some more.

After feeding, sleeping and resting here for four days she gets displaced by bears.

The Antirrhinum (right), commonly known as the snapdragon has been a popular garden plant for many years. Also known as the dragon flower, its common name derives from the resemblance of the flower to a dragon’s head.

When laterally squeezed the dragon will open and close it mouth: ask any grandparent whose flowers have been decimated by over keen but clumsy grandchildren. Yet once the flower has died, leaving behind the seed pod, something a little more macabre appears. The dragon – just a visual metaphor after all – appears to have a skull.

Snapdragon pods

Little wonder, then, that ancient cultures held the snapdragon to possess supernatural powers. They were thought to offer protection from deceit, curses and witchcraft if they were planted in your garden. Another myth maintains that they are able to restore youthfulness and beauty to any woman who ate them. It’s a wonder that the witches didn’t raid the gardens in which they grew to repair their own ravaged features.

Concealing a snapdragon about the body was supposed to make a person appear gracious and fascinating. Perhaps it is for this reason that in the Victorian language of flowers, the snapdragon was designated to symbolize deception and presumption. It could also, however, be sent by a lady to show gratitude to another – perhaps as a thank you for that marvelous anti-aging potion. Let’s face it – those Charmed Ones can’t be getting any younger.

Darfur/Sarajevo/Rwanda/etc…. Iraq?

Just how many heads are needed for a potion?

The Body Snatchers

Under an electron microscope the snapdragon pod looks, if anything, even more supernatural.

Yet in these enlightened times the majority of people do not believe in witchcraft and sorcery – not to mention dragons. However, when presented with the seed pod of the snapdragon, the skulls of so many dragons, one might be forgiven a moment’s reconsideration…