This poor little guy sneezes so hard he scares himself. This video was taken by family on vacation.

Read more about African elephants at Animal Fact Guide.

The BBC has turned its high-speed cameras on one of the most fascinating lizards in the world, the basilisk lizard. The basilisk, sometimes known as the Jesus lizard, is able to run across water to avoid predators. As shown in the video, the lizard has the ability to move so quickly that it can keep itself above water.

National Geographic reports that the Bagheera kiplingi, a jumping spider, has been recently identified as the only vegetarian spider in the world. Of the 40,000 species of spider in the world, this is the only species that eats primarily non-meat. Although the Bagheera kiplingi will occassionally eat ant larvae, they mainly eat acacia plant buds.

Read the whole article at National Geographic.

Grasslands National Park in Saskatchewan, Canada is now the home of 34 endangered black-footed ferrets. On Friday evening scientists and conservationists released the animals into the park in an effort to reintroduce them to their natural habitat.

The ferrets were nearly extinct until 1981, when a colony was found in Wyoming. This group was used to increase the population. Scientists and zoos from Canada and the United States worked together to breed and reintroduce the black-footed ferret.

After several years of effort, the ferrets were ready for release into the wild.

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