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A Ballard resident pointed her phone at a stretchy, long-legged, short-spined raccoon and asked "what am I looking at?" — and eight million people asked the same thing. He's since inspired murals, a bobblehead, a song, and a Jon Stewart segment.
Two thousand pounds of Tasmanian chaos who body-slams street signs, flattens bollards, and peers through people's screen doors like a very large door-to-door salesman. He racked up roughly thirty-one thousand Australian dollars in damage and 1.7 million TikTok followers doing it.
A pet duck in a tiny Mexico national team jersey and custom socks, waddling down Reforma Avenue mid-celebration while a whole city loses its mind chanting "Viva El Pato." He got invited to the National Palace. The duck. Got invited to the palace.
An abandoned baby monkey at a Japanese zoo bonded with a stuffed orangutan his keepers gave him, and the footage of him clinging to that plushie broke the internet's heart clean in half. IKEA sold out of the toy worldwide.
A giant pig who goes on hikes with her black Lab best friend, and a Rottweiler who has appointed himself full-time guardian of a pile of guinea pigs. Interspecies friendship at its absolute finest.
