Growing up, there are certain animals you're more familiar with than others. Kids love dogs and cats, they love dinosaurs. Some kids are into predators like lions, tigers, and bears, while others prefer animals one might find on a farm, like horses, cows or pigs. As a child, my tastes were a bit more… unique. I flitted between wanting to be an entomologist to wanting to be a marine biologist on the regular. I'd rather pick up rocks and look for bugs, or scout for frogs, toads, newts, and salama…

In case you guys were unaware, today is Wednesday, my dudes. Which calls for a big old batch of memes about Wednesday, my dudes. For those of you who may be unfamiliar, we're referencing a near-ancient meme that became popular on Reddit, but originated on Tumblr. The meme features a Budgett's frog and the text “It is Wednesday my dudes.” My introduction to the meme came from the r/me_irl subreddit. On most days of the week, the subreddit was a hub of painfully relatable, self-deprecating memes.…

I'm sure we all wished we were born into the legendary Irwin Dynasty at some point. Imagine being the heiress to the Australia Zoo throne, spending your days wearing fantastic two-piece khaki outfits with your awesome and perfectly wholesome family. I, for one, want nothing more than to star in my wildlife documentary programming and continue on the legacy of Steve Irwin , aka The Crocodile Hunter. I would trade my boring non-regional American accent for that authentic Aussie twang in a heartbe…

Halloween is just around the corner, and you know what that means! For fans of the animal kingdom, it means it's time to find an animal costume that carefully treads the line between being a furry and being Regina from Mean Girls . When you're a kid, it's easy to dress up as a cat or a wolf without getting any slack for it. Animal costumes are available, possibly a little basic, but most of all, cute. As an adult, you have to choose between whatever hogwash Spirit Halloween has to offer or the…

The crazy thing about animals when you break it down is that they are truly just freaky little guys. It’s wild that we walk the earth with them but at the same time it just makes sense. some animals like spiders and aquatic life are the creepiest closest things we’ve got to aliens on earth

Frogs and Cranberries? It must be fall. Much like Mariah Carrey's All I Want For Christmas is You on the Billboard Top 100 Chart, this meme comes crawling back to us seasonally, and we can't get enough of it. But why? On a fundamental level, "Frogs and cranberries it must be fall" is just plain funny. Why must it be fall when these two collide, we non-frog experts ask. What about this amphibian and this fruit coming together marks the period between September 22nd and December 20th? The meme or…

Frogs are not only one of the greatest animals in the entire animal kingdom, they're also the stars of some of the most legendary memes of the 2010s. One cannot communicate with words the legendary status Pepe the frog held in 2015. There were art kids at my high school who made a giant recreation of Pepe out of tape and carried him around throughout their day. There were full-tilt custody battles over the physical manifestation of a meme in his prime. What a legend. Around the same time period…

Dr. Dolittle is one lucky dog. That man can talk to the animals, and nobody bats an eye. He has been portrayed by Rex Harrison, Eddie Murphy, and Robert Downy Jr. Clearly, when they were casting these movies, they said, “Non-legends need not apply.” Only the most advanced actors

As the world's most famous frog once said, “it's not easy being green.”

It’s very easy to have a knowledge of Animal Kingdom on a very superficial level. You go to your local zoo, you see the zebras, and you think you know something. If you’re a regular viewer of Animal Planet or the Discovery Channel, you might feel a little bit superior to the rubes who called themselves the next Steve Irwin. Unfortunately, neither of these groups truly compare to the real hobbyists. Do you know the kinds of people we can look at a prehistoric fish thing and tell you it’s genus,…

I'm going to let you all in on a little secret; as a child, I was a frog girl . I'm not talking about your average run-of-the-mill frog girls that seem to be sprouting on top of lily pads constantly these days. I'm talking about a ride-or-die girlie of the ribbit experience. The only Webkinz I got were frog Webkinz. I had at least two baseball caps featuring the amphibian. The Rainforest Café mascot was my idol. I'm not messing around when it comes to frogs. It can be bittersweet when one of yo…

There's no denying it: Frog memes are definitely a thing. They may not quite as popular as the racoon, possum, or " monke" memes that have been flying around over the last year, but popular nonetheless. It's not hard to see why. The critters are usually cute as hell - and as a fun bonus, they come in all kinds of sizes! Did you know that the the biggest frog known to humans s the aptly named "Goliath frog?" The behemoth grow to a massive 12.5 inches and weigh more than half that. The smallest?…

Old McDonald had a farm, EIEIO. And on that farm, he had some memes EIEIO. Well, we've got plenty more memes where that came from. Old McDonald may have had an oink-oink here and an oink-oink there, but he did not have an extensive list of side-splitting animal memes. Sure, Old McDonald might've posted some memes (that he printed out) onto the side of the barn, but the only ones who saw them were the cows, the chickens, and the common house cat. Here, we've got memes for all animal fans. Are yo…

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There are few things in this world that I appreciate more than walking around in nature. Perhaps this has to do with being a city slicker. Walking around my neighborhood at home I can see rats, big ass palmetto bugs, squirrels and the occasional backyard raccoon or possum . And while I cannot denigrate those creatures (except for the big roaches), these sorts of critter sightings leave something to be desired. Walking around my parents new home in Vermont, however, is a different story. Their l…

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