Great. The gorgeous, majestic Sumatran tiger is headed for extinction. The video above shows 12 of the remaining 400 of them, playing with leaves and investigating (and at one exciting point, apparently, biting and incapacitating!) a motion-activated video camera the World Wildlife Federation set up in the Bukit Tigapuluh wildlife reserve this past March and April. And this forest—which they obviously like, because it's rare to record so many of the things over such a short period of time—is scheduled to be cleared for paper pulp. (Paper?! No one even uses that stuff anymore!)

Here you will find a picture of a squirrel hugging a meerkat. Awws all around.

Is this the world's oldest cat? Uh, sure, why the hell not?

"While mountain gorillas are physically strong, they are also incredibly vulnerable." —International Gorilla Conservation Program director Eugene Rutagarama, on why chicks dig mountain gorillas. (It also might have something to do with the fact that their noses are exactly the same shape as when you curl the fingers of both your hands and put them together to make the make "I heart you" sign.) Actually, he was talking about the importance of protecting their habitat in the mountains that make up the border between Uganda, the Congo and Rwanda. There are now 780 of these very attractive animals alive in the wild. Which is a great improvement, probably [...]