When Daisy the puppy gets stuck trying to descend a flight of stairs, older dog Simon steps in, demonstrating what to do and seemingly reassuring his younger peer.

Chimpanzees in the wild have been found to use large rocks as nutcrackers, to steal these tools from their peers, and to pass this skill down to their children.
 

 
 
In today’s clip, a cat shows off his freezer opening skills to get to his favorite fish sticks.
 

In the above clip, a dog repeatedly attempts to get a game of fetch going with an unwilling partner.

[via Buzzfeed Animals]

In the above clip, which grows more and more impressive throughout, a dog shows off its street running prowess, a skill which likely took much learning and practice.

As the above clip shows, researchers have recently found that with practice, baboons can tell the difference between real four letter written words and strings of four letters that are not words.  Even more impressively, after training they can even pick out new real words they have never seen before, suggesting that they are able to learn that certain letter combinations are more likely to be actual words than are other strings of letters.

[via Monkeys in the News]

When this chick wants to cuddle, this cat calmly obliges.

In today’s clip, a sheep decides to send a fisherman for a little swim.

via [Cute Overload]

This dog not only waits and watches over its owner’s bike, when it comes time to go it happily hops on the back to ride along.