ANIMALS

Get a look at some of the planet’s great gatherings, creatures that come together in inconceivable numbers — sometimes in millions, billions, even trillions. In the process, a kind of super-organism is created in which individual intelligence is superseded by a collective consciousness that shares ...

In this video, a newborn duckling jumps close to a hundred of feet from its tree nest to reach its mother and the water far below.

Sea otters cannot even swim on their own when they are born. In the wild, a mother otter takes her pup everywhere to protect and educate her baby.

An orphan otter pup learns a few lessons at The Monterey Bay Aquarium from a surrogate mother otter.

A baby sea otter abandoned on the beach was brought in to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. This is the aquarium's 501st attempt to save an orphan otter. Against all odds, will she be able to return to her home in the wild?

Even if 501 aces all of her otter lessons, there are a plenty of challenges she may face in the wild including shark attacks.

Wildlife cinematographer Neil Rettig and Laura Johnson trained the snow geese who star in the North American hour of Earthflight. In this video, Rettig and Johnson search for their geese which they lost track of somewhere in Brooklyn, New York.

After arriving in the "Blue City" of Jodhpur, India, a long-legged buzzard goes after a flock of pigeons, desperate for a meal. The bird of prey soars high before diving at over 100 miles per hour to make its catch.

The Japanese crane, also known as the red-crowned crane, is one of the rarest cranes in the world. Adult cranes usually mate for life and these bonds are reinforced in a stunning courtship dance. Watch them perform their intricate courtship dances in this scene from ...