Cafe Animals

The Perfectionists at Wimbledon presents Rufus, the Wimbledon Hawk. Rufus has been keeping pigeons at bay since 2000. Rufus is the perfect athlete and prides himself on his work - he's up at 5am everyday to patrol the grounds.

National Geographic was able to film A record-breaking school of mobula rays arriving off the coast of Baja but what they did was totally unexpected. This was a stunning show by these sleek, mysterious ocean dwellers. I wonder what they're actually doing...it almost seems like they're celebrating.

Intelligent Green Heron knows how to use bait.

Kanzi the bonobo lives in America and has learnt how to build a fire, light it using matches and toast marshmallows on it. It shows just how like us some primates really are.

Honey badgers escape from their enclosure using anything from mud balls to rakes.

I can't help but feel there's actually a tiny Japanese woman trapped inside that myna bird.

It took mountain climber Aron Ralston 127 hours to amputate his own limb. But it only takes a few seconds for this crab to pull off its own claw after an unsuccessful attack from a group of birds.

Jumpy, a Border Collie and Blue Heeler mix, has been training with his owner Omar von Muller ever since he was a puppy. In this video, he's demonstrating the famous "Skidboot" routine.

The fastest man alive, Usain Bolt, runs a virtual race against nature's fastest land animal.

Everyone hates mosquitos. Besides the annoying buzzing and biting, mosquito-borne diseases like malaria kill over a million people each year (plus horses, dogs and cats). And over the past 100 million years, they've gotten good at their job -- sucking up to three times their weight in blood, totally undetected. So shouldn't we just get rid of them? Rose Eveleth shares why scientists aren't sure.

This dog is not allowed on the bed. So it's owner installed a camera to check what happens when the dog stays home alone.

Captain Dave Anderson of Capt. Dave's Dolphin and Whale Safari in Dana Point, California, at great personal risk, has recently filmed and edited a 5-minute video that contains some of the most beautiful, jaw-dropping, footage ever taken with a drone from the air of a huge mega-pod of thousands of common dolphins stampeding off Dana Point, California, three gray whales migrating together down the coast off San Clemente, California, and heartwarming close-ups hovering over a newborn Humpback whale calf snuggling and playing with its mom as an escort whale stands guard nearby, filmed recently in Maui.

When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the United States after being absent nearly 70 years, the most remarkable "trophic cascade" occurred. What is a trophic cascade and how exactly do wolves change rivers? George Monbiot explains in this movie remix.

A striated caracara, intrigued by our spy egg-cam, decides to fly off with our camera but in the process captures the first ever aerial footage of a rockhopper penguin colony shot by a flying bird.

In touching scenes at a zoo in Canada, a baby polar bear cub has been filmed taking his first steps.

Humankind has been looking for the giant squid (Architeuthis) since we first started taking pictures underwater. But the elusive deep-sea predator could never be caught on film. Oceanographer and inventor Edith Widder shares the key insight that helped to capture the squid on camera for the first time.

Sweet dogs terrified of walking past cats: a dramatic compilation.