ANIMALS

Brave Dog Rescues Cold Baby Calf and Stays by its Side Until Full Recovery

Dogs are truly caring and affectionate creatures. We enjoy stories about dogs going above and beyond to help other animals, saving them with their kindness. Take a story from a Reddit user named Oakenboken, who shared that his pet yellow lab Bosko discovered a nearly lifeless baby calf in their feedlot, suffering from extreme cold.

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“His mother was to weak to care for him, and the cold and wet and nearly taken him,” the OP (original poster) shared. “His nose was frozen stiff and his eyes looked dead, but he was breathing, if barely.”

To try to save his life, the calf’s mother and grandmother quickly brought him indoors and wrapped him in blankets with heating pads. They also gave the cow antibiotics.

And what’s really touching? Bosko stuck by the calf’s side the whole time!.

After four hours, the family received some good news when the baby cow began to move, and his breathing became steady. Right when Bosko went inside to take a break, the family’s other dog, Duke, stepped in and “took up the night shift,” staying with the cow. How cute, right?

As time passed, the calf started feeling better. By the third day, he was up and moving around, eating without any issues. Shortly after, the calf was strong enough to rejoin the other cows, following a few weeks of bottle feedings.

Image source: Oakenboken

Later on, they named the cow Zeke. Even though he was a bit underweight after his health scare, he was generally in good shape and earned the title of “one of the friendliest cows you will find.”

Zeke became a sort of mascot and a buddy to one of their bulls, so the person on Reddit amusingly assured everyone that they had no plans to eat the cow.

Image source: Oakenboken

Thanks to the caring dog that helped him in the rain, the little cow made it through and got a precious chance at life. The owner mentions that Bosko was also rescued, so it’s like he’s paying it forward to another animal in need.

“He was a [rescue] case himself,” u/Oakenboken wrote. “Showed up near our front gate a few years back with his brother, Duke. Both were skin an bones, full of worms, and had chewed up ropes around their necks. We took em in and got em fixed up and back to good health. Now, they’re the co-kings of the castle.”

Image source: Oakenboken

ANIMALS

Amazing Video of Unseen Ocean Creatures in the Ningaloo Canyons

The Schmidt Ocean Institute recently explored the Ningaloo Canyons on the western coast of Australia using a robotic underwater vehicle called the ROV Sebastian. Check out the amazing video of what they discovered in the deep parts of the Indian Ocean.

More info: Youtube

ANIMALS

These Pics Are Art and the Artists Are Insects

Flying insects move so quickly that they are hard to follow, but new technology and some smart ideas have helped Spanish photographer Xavi Bou do just that. After spending 10 years focusing on birds in flight for his Ornithographies project, he turned his attention to insects.

For Entomographies, he uses high-speed video footage taken by Adrian Smith, an insect expert at North Carolina State University, to study and record how insects move. Bou then picks multiple frames and combines them into single images that show the fast movements of one or more insects through space and time.

With Smith’s help, Bou has captured the aerial tricks of wasps, the jumps of leafhoppers, and the fluttering of butterflies in amazing detail. He hopes that by doing this, he can make people more aware of the decline in important insect populations around the world.

1. Zebra longwing

This butterfly, which is common in many areas of the Americas, really fits its name. It can fly very high with just a few flaps of its large wings.