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This happened five days ago, and since I don't see it posted yet, I thought I'll do so, since it absolutely belongs here...

Video by Taylor Rabe (not me), wolf technician for a non-profit wildlife conservation organisation, Yellowstone Forever - check out her Instagram https://www.instagram.com/taylorlrabe/ for loads of really interesting Yellowstone wolf footage...

By the way, this was a sign from Yellowstone's team to stay away from the area since Grizzlies were in the area due to a carcass. The pup is one of six of the Junction Butte pack.

Oh yeah, turn down the music...

This is a paparazzi shot... the crowd could not believe the coolness of Gainsbourg and Birkin, who as usual wore hardly any makeup and just long, undone hair with fringe, a sexy dress without a bra, and her signature basket (the prototype for the Hermès Birkin) - while the crowd, both women and men have set and styled hair, prissy clothes and handbags, and still look like they belong in the bourgeois 50s/early 60s, not the free-spirited late 60s and 70s...

Helmut Newton was one of the best, and most famous, fashion photographers of the 1970s and 1980s; here he wore his signature uniform, like every day, white chinos, t-shirt, white Stan Smiths, and sunglasses.

He was a guy who couldn't care less what others thought of him, a German jew who fled Germany at the last minute, working odd jobs and just trying to get by in Singapore and Australia, then marrying actress and photographer June Browne, and always working with her on his photos. His photos are all very sexy, but not cheap or objectifying, and he was a favorite of many leading ladies and models, and both his nudes and fashion photos are still unsurpassed.

Some of these images are from the early 1920s (the last one is from 1921 with the ladies dressed in white and the older man in top hat and tails), most are from the second half of the 1920s... These really give an impression how it must have felt being in the fashion capital at the time and looking at all these elaborately dressed and styled folks (compared to today)...

Famous dancers Serge Lifar and Alexandra Danilova in Apollon musagète by Igor Stravinsky, Ballets Russes (1928)

The movie 'Camille' from 1921 with Nazimova and Valentino is in the public domain now, so available for free online, the best version (English subtitles) I found is this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CZ11gDbBc0

It's a great movie, if you love the 1920s, the costumes and production design are absolutely breathtaking, Nazimova is so good as an actress that you can feel and imagine everything she does without a single word, and the chemistry with Valentino (and the heartthrob himself) is fantastic. It's also only a little over one hour long - I really recommend it...

Since this iconic photo of the Eiffel tower through a doorway with the quintessential 1920s woman's silhouette by an unknown photographer from 1928 hasn't been posted here yet (to my knowledge), I'd thought I'd do so.

An injured cormorant has pecked repeatedly against the glass door of the emergency department in the 'Klinik links der Weser' in Bremen, Northern Germany, till staff let him in.

They called the fire department, and together with ER staff removed the fishing hook that had injured and partially closed the bird's beak, and cared for the wound, saving him; they released him right after that.

This is a German-language video by German's public broadcaster ZDF - the photo of the cormorant pecking against the glass door and waiting is visible for a couple of seconds between 00:07-00:12 in the video...

Second video of pet cow Veronika, in the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows; she scratches her own back, belly, sides with different ends of a wooden broom, a behaviour she showed without having been trained in any way.

Quoting the Emily Anthes (NYTimes):

"When Veronika scratched the thick, tough skin along her back, she tended to use the bristled end of the broom. But when she targeted her underside, like her udder or her belly flaps, she tended to use the wooden handle of the broom to gently prod and push the softer, more sensitive skin that covered those areas."

This is the (amazing!) article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/science/animals-cows-intelligence-tools.html

Pet cow Veronika, in the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows - published in 'Current Biology' just yesterday - scratches her own back, belly, sides with different ends of a wooden broom.

Quoting the Emily Anthes article in the New York Times:

"When Veronika scratched the thick, tough skin along her back, she tended to use the bristled end of the broom. But when she targeted her underside, like her udder or her belly flaps, she tended to use the wooden handle of the broom to gently prod and push the softer, more sensitive skin that covered those areas.

“She was using a way more careful approach,” Dr. Osuna-Mascaró said. “It wasn’t an error. It was a meaningful use of the handle end of the tool.”

It appears to be a clear-cut case of animal tool use, said Christian Nawroth, who studies farm animal cognition at the Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology in Germany. “It looks very convincing,” said Dr. Nawroth, who was not involved in the research."

This is the article, https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/science/animals-cows-intelligence-tools.html - it has even more amazing videos of the cow using the broom, and they're all incredible!