A Clever Panda Fakes Being Pregnant To Get More Food From Her Handler.

Being deceptive in order to get your way isn’t nice, but unfortunately, this is an imperfect world. That tactic will totally work, and it helped giant panda Ai Hin at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding get a bunch of extra treats. Not only did her lies get her better food, but she also got to stay in an air-conditioned room to lounge in and 24-hour care. For a little while, at least.  

What she did was trick her handlers into thinking she was pregnant in order to get special treatment. That lucky bear.

After displaying signs that she was pregnant for nearly two months, Ai Hin began acting normally again. Perhaps she had finally eaten all she could possibly eat or maybe she just couldn’t live with the guilt of leading her handlers astray. Either way, she cut it out and went back to normal.

False pregnancies are actually fairly common among pandas–often times, a zoo will not fully know if a panda is pregnant until they start giving birth.

The life of Ai Hin’s cub was to be available online so everyone could keep tabs on the little one from its birth to when it fakes its own pregnancy. (Hey, you can’t blame a bear who just wants to cool off and chow down on some additional delicious bamboo.)

(via CNN, IFLScience)

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Your Eyes Aren’t Playing Tricks On You, This Beach IS Completely Red.

Do not adjust your computer monitors, the beach you are about to look it is actually as red as it appears to be. Aptly named Red Seabeach, this Liaoning, China landscape is covered in Sueda. The strangely-hued plant is a species of grass that turns from green to red in the fall months. You have to see it to believe just how vivid the color change is–and even then, you’ll probably want to make the trip to see it in person. It’s a popular tourist destination for a reason. If red grass isn’t your thing, then perhaps you’d be interested in the over 260 different types of birds that call the wetlands home. Take a look!  

Well, it’s certainly red.

That’s amazing!

With amazing views like that, I expected to see more people here.

There they are!

These wetlands boast over 260 different kinds of birds.

And nearly 400 types of wild animals.

The Red Seabeach is part of the biggest wetland in the world.

The red Sueda is one of the few species of grass that can grow in the highly alkaline soil of the area.

And grow it does!

What an amazing plant!

(via Where Cool Things Happen, BoredPanda)

Finally, a beach where my sunburned body won’t stick out like a sore thumb–or sore back, more accurately.

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I’d Take One Of These Tiny Houses Over A Mansion Any Day Of The Week.

Whoever said bigger is better must have never stepped foot into one of these tiny, but totally awesome houses. That, or they had already bought a mansion and didn’t keep their receipt.

The houses below are really quite amazing. I was already on board with the smaller home thing when I realized there’d be less cleaning, but now that I’ve seen what you can do with such little space, I’m very much into it. I won’t say tinier is better, since it’s subjective, but smaller is definitely super! Take a look!  

Millau, France

Machynlleth, Wales

Weston Super Mare, England

Ojai, California

Hampshire, England

Green Mountain, North Carolina

Seguin, Texas

Turin, Italy

Stanwood, Washington

Rocky Mountains, Colorado

(via Tiny House Swoon, H/T Lifebuzz)

These are so awesome. Tiny houses prove that quantity is definitely less important than quality. Most of these are a fraction of the size of the house I grew up in, but they are so much cooler.

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