An incredibly agile bobcat who appeared stuck out on a collapsed dock in the middle of a Pecan Island in Louisiana took an effortless flying leap from one wooden pile over the missing part of the dock and landed gracefully on the next pile. The big cat continued to move from pile to pile until back on terra firma. A person who was in a fishing boat nearby captured this incredible sight.
We were just out fishing for blue crab in Pecan Island, LA and this huge bobcat came out across the weir. I grabbed my phone thinking he was about to get wet, but he surprised us all.
A very clever squirrel who really didn't want to share his meal with others strategically took a flying leap off of a wooden fence that landed him directly on a bird feeder and immediately dispersed the hungry crowd already eating there. According to bhminden, the squirrel was "determined to get…
On an tasty episode of their The Super Slow Show, Gavin Free and Dan Gruchy of The Slow Mo Guys captured super slow motion footage of 6,000 lbs of red gelatin being poured out of a wooden box and slow motion footage of Gruchy jumping onto a giant pile of…
http://youtu.be/KOVpWR1nRkE "We shouldn't have tried this at home." Andrew McMurry and Spencer Waldner of Andrewmfilms have created A Leap of Faith, a short video about one man who tries his luck at performing an Assassin's Creed video game inspired leap of faith off of his roof into a hay pile.…
A British woman named Maude, who's happiest in or near the water, captured absolutely mesmerizing footage of a beautiful starling murmuration that was gracefully floating over a body of water next to a dock. The birds performed an elaborate defensive dance in separate groups before finally coming together in the…
Alberto Rodriguez, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT along with a team from the MIT MCube Lab developed a very precisely moving robot that uses machine learning hardware to play a mean game of Jenga. The robot gracefully removes a wooden piece in two motions and the place it…
Lori Dorn
Lori is a Laughing Squid Contributing Editor based in New York City who has been writing blog posts for over a decade. She also enjoys making jewelry, playing guitar, taking photos and mixing craft cocktails.