Time for a roundup of strange natural happenings, and of course adorable animals.

• WTF Nature is a good overall resource for strange natural things, lots of contributors.

• Mom provided a good link to a video from the TED conference where they show just how really really strange and wonderful creatures octopi really are, among other cool underwater things.  Definitely worth a watch.
• Then we have a nice few shots of a family enjoying a newly built playstructure.  A family of bears, that is.  The perils of building anything that fun when living in Alaska, I suppose.
• Biiig freaking cow, huge, really really big cow.  Very Large Cow.
  
• Insanely cute animal pictures.  Hurts my teeth to look at this.
• Extraordinarily specialized blog, narrowly covering the specific cuteness of otters, which really is an under-reported field.  Bravo.
• Finally, only narrowly animal related, a blog covering things that look like ducks.  Yes, really.

So there you have it.  All of your natural wonders covered here in excruciating detail.