Funny news, clips and stories we found around the web. The links go to the original sources.
Rascal, a pyjama shark, keeps swimming back to diver Leigh de Necker to be stroked and nudges her whenever she sings through her snorkel. Experts think the shark senses the sound vibrations with its lateral line.
Source: Deep Blue Discovery via Yahoo ↗A southern ground hornbill at Amsterdam's Artis Zoo got two 3D-printed prostheses after both halves of its beak broke. The bird started using its new beak the same day.
Source: VICE ↗Tessa, a Masai giraffe at Cincinnati Zoo, could have her fifth calf any day, and two cameras let anyone watch live. Fans can later join in to help name the calf.
Source: Axios Cincinnati ↗Two young beavers have moved into the Cornish Seal Sanctuary to keep each other company while they grow up, with the hope of a release into the wild. They are named Steve and Terri after conservationists Steve and Terri Irwin.
Source: BBC News ↗A barn owl family has moved into a rooftop water tower on the Upper West Side, which experts call the first documented barn owl nest in modern Manhattan. Crowds gather nightly to spot the five fluffy youngsters, and those spooky night screeches turned out to be owl chatter.
Source: AP via ABC7 New York ↗Two six-month-old capybara siblings have arrived at San Francisco Zoo, the first there in nearly a decade. They share their home with a giant anteater and giant tortoises, and the zoo is auctioning off the right to name them.
Source: USA Today ↗In the village of Fillongley, a knitting group has put woolly figures along the road, including an officer in a knitted high-vis vest with a yarn speed gun. Drivers brake as if it were a real speed check, but the star figure has now gone missing.
Source: BBC News ↗
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