#animalsarethebest

[davidwfloydart]

Foster kittens 🐈‍⬛ #goodtimes😊 #fostercare #cutekittens #animalsarethebest #kittykitty #kittylove #catloversclub #joyful (at Catalina Foothills, Arizona) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpnVUFJJdx8C04-VeQVBRI56UVpgRYw2IF8J8c0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#goodtimes😊 #fostercare #cutekittens #animalsarethebest #kittykitty #kittylove #catloversclub #joyful

[dammiunnimevalido-blog]

#relax #gatto #cat #chat #tagsapp #animalshots #animalsarethebest #animalsaddict #animals_shots_ #animals_shots #animals_of_instagram #animals_magic #animals_in_world #animals_captures #animals #animalprints #animalplanet #animalphotography #animallovers #animallove #animalkingdom #animaljam #animali #animalgram #animalface #animales #animal_captures #animal #amazinganimals (presso Parcheggio Argelato Centro) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce0ct3-sIM9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[lionmountaintv]

Fortress Mongoose. A large family of mongoose has made their home on an island in the Okavango Delta. The island is surrounded by water and protects the Mongoose from danger. They live in a large termite mound, and the termites provide some juicy snacks.   #mongoose #secretcreaturesofjao #jaocamp #wearewilderness #okavango #okavangodelta #lionmountaintv #naturevideos #animalvideos #viralvideos #naturechannel #animalchannel #videostreaming #streamingvideo #videostreamingplatform #videostreamingservice #streamingvideos #onlinestreamingvideos #onlinevideostreaming #animalvideos #animalvideosofinstagram #videosofanimals #bestanimalvideos #wildanimalvideos #animalsofinstagram #wildlife #wildlifephotography #animalphotography #животное #сафари #animalsoftheworld #animalsarethebest #wildlifevideos #cuteanimalsofinstagram #lionmountainmedia

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[j2lovemoose]

Sammy takes a shower🚿

#jared padamoose #attention moose #moosemonday #mymoose #take a shower #spn #spndaily #jaredgif #animalsarethebest #animalsareawesome #animals are great #animals #screw you bitch

[soet-koffie]

#cottage witch #cottagelife #country cottage #forest cottage #cottage #cottage aesthetic #flower core #core #turtle #baby turtle #animalsarefamily #animalsarethebest #cute baby animals #baby animals #animals

[husheduphistory]

The Jumper, Jack, and the Railroad Tracks

The town of Uitenhage, located in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, was founded in the early 1800s and by the 1870s it was a stop for the thousands traveling along the Port Elizabeth Mainline Railroad from Port Elizabeth to the capital city of Capetown. Working the signals at the town’s train station was a man named James Wide, better known as “Jumper”, and his assistant. The station ran smoothly until the day the two were visited by their superiors. When they saw what was going on they were completely stunned.

“Jumper” Wide was a railway man who earned his nickname. While working as a guard for the Cape Town’s Port Authority Railway Service he became known for his preferred method of traveling between the trains, jumping and swinging on ropes in between the rail cars, regardless if they were moving. It was while jumping between the cars one day in 1877 that tragedy struck. Jumper slipped on a canvas and fell straight down to the tracks directly in the path of a moving train. The massive metal wheels crunched over Jumper’s legs, severing them both at the knee and leaving him unable to perform his job. After recovering from his injuries, Jumper pleaded with the railway to somehow keep him on as an employee and he was eventually assigned to the Uitenhage station to serve as a signalman.

Wide adapted to his new circumstances as best he could, carving himself a set of wooden peg legs that strapped onto his body and building a wooden cart to help wheel himself from his home to the train station. One Saturday morning Wide was pushing himself around a bustling Uitenhage marketplace when he saw a team of oxen being led through the market, completely under the control of an amazingly capable chacma baboon. Seeing how much the animal was helping the man driving the oxen, it dawned on Wide how much a companion like the baboon could help him in his daily life. He spied the owner, wheeled his cart over to introduce himself, and asked him if he would ever consider parting ways with his furry companion. With Wide sitting before him on a cart with two carved wooden legs the oxen driver had a difficult decision to make, but in the end he agreed to hand his beloved baboon over to Wide. He had one vital piece of advice, if he wanted to keep the baboon happy he had to give him a small cup of “good Cape brandy” every night. Otherwise, he would sulk the next day and refuse to help until he got his preferred beverage.

Chacma baboon. Image via Wikipedia.

Although there were a few times that Wide forgot the brandy and learned that the ox driver’s warning was true, he and his new companion, now named Jack, became very fast friends. Jack was extremely intelligent and absorbed his new surroundings with ease, quickly learning how to help Wide clean his small home and waking each morning to accompany him to the Uitenhage train station for the workday. The two shared a small cottage located half a mile from the station and each morning Wide would sit on his handcrafted cart while Jack pushed him to work. Along the route was a small hill and Jack would push his friend to the top before jumping on the cart and riding down the other side together. Ever-observant, Jack would spy old condemned wooden railway sleepers and bring pieces back to Wide to use as firewood. He learned to help sweep, clean up garbage, and became a faithful guardian, snarling and gnashing his teeth at anyone who came near until he was assured the visitor was safe. Jack was always willing to help Wide, and soon his incredible learning ability began to reveal itself in a remarkable way.

Wide and Jack with Wide’s trolley cart. Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Part of Wide’s job as a signalman at the railway station was to listen for the approaching trains so that he could hand them a key that allowed them to get into the coal sheds. The key was kept near the signal box and every day when Wide would hear the familiar four blasts from an approaching train’s whistle he would hobble out to the platform on his crutches and hold the key out to the locomotive driver. One day Wide heard the whistles calling him and before he could get to his crutches he watched as Jack jumped up, went out to the platform, grabbed the key, and successfully handed it off to the surprised conductor.

Handling the signals at the station was a hugely important job that required absolute accuracy. Different blasts from the train whistles required signals to be changed in order to direct the trains safely and Wide wondered if his friend Jack could figure out the task. It began with Wide showing Jack how to pull the levers, then he developed hand signals to tell Jack which levers to pull for which whistle blow. Amazingly, within a few weeks Jack the baboon had successfully memorized the various whistle patterns and was able to turn the correct signals over and over again. Wondering if it was just a matter of Jack memorizing a set schedule, he decided to test him, asking conductors to send different signals to see if it would trip up the baboon. He never failed once.

Wide and Jack at the signal levers. Image via Wikimedia Commons.

The news about the train station being run by a baboon spread fast and, for the most part, it was a story that people loved, bringing passengers to their train windows to witness Jack standing on the platform with Wide standing behind him on his hand-carved wooden legs. But, one day the train had a very prominent woman riding on board and the sight and story of Jack did not delight her, she was absolutely horrified. Fearing for her safety, she reported Jack to authorities in Cape Town. Inspectors went to the station and upon finding the signals being handled by a baboon, they quickly dismissed Wide from his job.

Wide once again found himself pleading for his place in the railroad, insisting to the system manager that Jack was more than able of performing the job as signalman and begging for the opportunity to show them just how capable he was. Finally, for reasons unknown, the manager finally agreed to test Jack. A conductor was given a long list of secret sequences that he would blast from the train whistle and wait for the baboon’s response. To the complete and utter amazement of everyone present, Jack answered every last whistle blast by pulling the correct set of levers to switch the signals. Not only did he respond with the right signals at precisely the right time, they also witnessed him looking down the tracks to where an oncoming train would be approaching to make sure the signals were correct down the line. The manager and his associates could not deny what they saw. Jack was completely fluent in the train signals, even double checking his work in front of them. What they saw was impressive. Wide got his job back, but they also officially hired Jack, granting him an official railroad employee number and paying him a ration of twenty cents a day and half a bottle of beer weekly. Jack the Signalman was official.

He was also here to stay. Jack continued working for the railroad with his friend Wide, who he doted on. After a visit to the station in 1890 the railway superintendent George B. Howe wrote: ��Jack knows the signal whistle as well as I do, also every one of the levers…It was very touching to see his fondness for his master. As I drew near they were both sitting on the trolley. The baboon’s arms round his master’s neck, the other stroking Wide’s face.”

Wide and Jack at their train station. Image via Wikipedia.

Jack manned the signals at the railway station with Wide for nine years before he passed away from tuberculosis in 1890. During those nine years on the job Jack the signalman baboon never made a single mistake.

Today, Jack’s skull is on display at the Albany Museum in Grahamstown, South Africa.

#HushedUpHistory #History #featuredstories #SouthAfrica #SouthAfricaHistory #Railroad #Railroadhistory #Baboon #Serviceanimal #RailroadSignal #MansBestFriend #Animals #AnimalHistory #AnimalsAreTheBest #Trains #TrainHistory #HistoryofTrains #BestFriends #WeirdHistory #ForgottenHistory #StrangeHistory #TruthisStrangerThanFiction #HistoryisWild #HistoryClass #Historyiscool #HistoryisNotBoring #AnimalStories #TrueStory

[addy-rivera]

He is just the kindest most loyal and forgiving soul in all the seven kingdoms. ❄️❄️❄️ #animalsarethebest #ghost #got #gameofthrones #fanart #winterfell #direwolf #illustration #ghostforkingofthesevenkingdoms #ghostforking #ghostwouldimplementtruedemocracy https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxr8WU8lZrV/?igshid=1gij8oiu5j9pq

#animalsarethebest #ghost #got #gameofthrones #fanart #winterfell #direwolf #illustration #ghostforkingofthesevenkingdoms #ghostforking #ghostwouldimplementtruedemocracy

[animalsmattertoox-blog]

"I love animals more than humans, they have a soul full of such kindness that most humans will never ever have."

- Sarah Elia

#animal #animalsarefriends #animalsarenotfood #wild animals #animals #baby animals #animallovers #animallife #animallivesmatter #wildanimalphotos #breath of the wild #wildlife #wildanimalpark #animalsareawesome #animalsarethebest #cute #cuteanimals #cute pets #cute animals #animalsofig

[ciego64]

At least THIS nurse doesn’t hog the whole pillow I need to elevate my foot. (Unlike the four-legged ones.) . . . . . #sunnytheamazon #parrot #amazonparrot #amazonparrots #amazonparrotsofinstagram #parrotnurse #nurse #bestnurse #brokentoe #injuredfoot #animalsarethebest #animalsarethebestmedicine (at Home Sweet Home :)) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRuPKZWs0rc/?utm_medium=tumblr

#sunnytheamazon #parrot #amazonparrot #amazonparrots #amazonparrotsofinstagram #parrotnurse #nurse #bestnurse #brokentoe #injuredfoot #animalsarethebest #animalsarethebestmedicine

[artisreallife]

Party animal 🤘😂😂 #mrpersonality #beardeddragon #reptile #jamiraquai #manofthehouse #toogood #lol #animalsarethebest #love #lilman #pancake (at Long Beach, California)

#reptile #love #lol #animalsarethebest #mrpersonality #manofthehouse #jamiraquai #pancake #lilman #toogood #beardeddragon

[echolistichairstudiobyantonio]

Chilling w Benji. #lovecats #loveanimals #lovedogs #animalsarethebest (at North Beach, Miami Beach, FL) https://www.instagram.com/p/CN_QhwtLeNl/?igshid=1cgwlebx005l7

#lovecats #loveanimals #lovedogs #animalsarethebest

[lionmountaintv]

Step into the captivating realm of the Waterhole, a unique oasis in the heart of Namibia's desert, where African wildlife comes together spectacularly! We witness an exceptional occurrence - the incredible convergence of the towering Elephants and the elusive Black Rhinos at the waterhole, all under the moon's gentle glow. Prepare to be amazed by exclusive insights into these magnificent creatures' behaviour, interactions, and sheer power. With awe-inspiring footage, we'll bring you closer to the secrets of their nocturnal world. 🦏🐘 Don't forget to hit that "Like" button, subscribe to our channel for more spellbinding wildlife encounters, and ring the notification bell so you never miss a moment of these mesmerizing wonders of the natural world. Let's embark on this incredible safari together and be a part of this wild, unforgettable experience! 📸🌠 #EtoshaWaterhole #Elephants #BlackRhinos #AfricanSavanna #NighttimeWildlife #EtoshaNationalPark #WildlifeSafari 🎬 → Stream FREE nature documentaries and series on demand. Don't miss out! Create your FREE account at https://www.lionmountain.tv or download our app from the Apple Store or Google Play. #lionmountaintv #onsafari #naturevideos #animalvideos #viralvideos #naturechannel #animalchannel #videostreaming #streamingvideo #videostreamingplatform #videostreamingservice #streamingvideos #onlinestreamingvideos #onlinevideostreaming #animalvideos #animalvideosofinstagram #videosofanimals #bestanimalvideos #wildanimalvideos #animalsofinstagram #wildlife #wildlifephotography #animalphotography #животное #сафари #safari #animalsoftheworld #animalsarethebest #wildlifevideos #cuteanimalsofinstagram #lionmountainmedia

#youtube

[j2lovemoose]

Me: Gizmo?! Did you go through the trash?!

Gizmo: Whaaaat?! What makes you think that?!

#funny dogs #dogsarefamily #dogsrule #crazydogmom #animals are great #animalsareawesome #animalsarethebest #whatshappening #what shall i do? #doglike

[look-in-bio-for-new-account]

Gentle Reminder...

⭐️💛🌼 old animals are just as cute and wonderful as baby animals and they deserve just as much love 🌼💛⭐️

#adoptdontshop #rescue animals #rehoming animals #animalsarethebest #animals #baby animals #old dog #old dogs #old cat #old cats #old animals #elderly animals

[katkrogcrafts]

4 sales away from my monthly goal. so close. come check me out. (pic is just some deer the kiddos and I saw. made lots of talk about the farm we want hahaha. www.etsy.com/shop/katkrogcrafts #etsyseller #allformykids #workingmom #workingtomove #shoppingsmall #neverquit #keepdreaming #dreamhome #ladybosslife #bossladymindset #diva #divaboss #divabosslady #wildlife #farming #farminglife #animals #animalsarethebest #animaltherapy #deer #dreamingofdeer #femaleempowerment #anything4views https://www.instagram.com/p/CB4lZt8JIqv/?igshid=14cws7fln6c8w

#etsyseller #allformykids #workingmom #workingtomove #shoppingsmall #neverquit #keepdreaming #dreamhome #ladybosslife #bossladymindset #diva #divaboss #divabosslady #wildlife #farming #farminglife #animals #animalsarethebest #animaltherapy #deer #dreamingofdeer #femaleempowerment #anything4views

[dejandohuellaanimal]

Día a tope! Bella y Baxter visita al veterinario @clinicaveterinariavetandvet 27€ Latas de comida #puppy 13€ Leche para 8 galguitos recogidos por Residencia Canina Elliot 17€. Doxiciclina para Merlí 7€... Suma y sigue... Por favor, ayúdanos a ayudar. . 🌸BIZUM 645097850 . 🌸PAYPAL [email protected] . 🌸CUENTA ES82 2103 0753 41 0030015385 . . . #lunesde #lunesatope #dogs #rescuedogs #loveanimals #peopleoftheworld #helpme #loveanimals #rescuedogsofinstagram #dogsgramers #notíciadeldia #animal_lovers #animal_perfection #naturephotograpy #naturelover_gr #natureandanimals #animalsarethebest (en Seville, Spain) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAWFphFo-6K/?igshid=1s8pd2sgr56n

#puppy #lunesde #lunesatope #dogs #rescuedogs #loveanimals #peopleoftheworld #helpme #rescuedogsofinstagram #dogsgramers #notíciadeldia #animal_lovers #animal_perfection #naturephotograpy #naturelover_gr #natureandanimals #animalsarethebest