The BBC has just unveiled its "Wildlife Finder," a Web site it bills as "the world's biggest online zoo." To create the "zoo," which so far includes 370 different species of animals (with more to come), the BBC has compiled video footage from hundreds of wildlife documentaries, including the blockbuster hit Planet Earth.

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Unlike a "real" zoo, with its bored animals gazing out blankly from concrete cells and cramped cages, BBC's Wildlife Finder captures animals in their own habitats—from the rain forests of Chile to the volcanoes of Papua New Guinea. No more peering through cage bars trying in vain to catch a glimpse of a sleeping lemur or waiting for the hippos to come up for air. BBC's Wildlife Finder includes footage shot with underwater and infrared cameras to capture nocturnal and deep-sea animals doing the things that they do naturally—things they never get to do in a zoo.

So far, the most popular animals are proving to be the meerkats (who doesn't love meerkats?), Darwin's frog (a Chilean frog whose males give birth through their mouths—all of which is caught on tape, of course), and the New Guinea jumping spider, who is shown jumping onto a cameraman.

Gather the kids around the PC and check out the online zoo today. They'll learn a heck of a lot more than they would at the local wildlife penitentiary.

Posted by Alisa Mullins

• Shut the front door! (Say it out loud, it's funnier.) This sick—but smart—sea turtle swam across the Florida Keys to the only facility in the world that is solely licensed to treat sea turtles.
• Proof that sea kitten hunters have no brains?
• Hooray! David Letterman blasts Ringling, and the Huffington Post follows up with the ugly details.
• Our peeps at Ecorazzi give props to Morrissey for running a tight veggie ship. Ahoy!
• Sweet redemption for one very resourceful cow.
• Parrots can save lives. Don't leave them in cages.
• Fluffy baby chicks: as smart as baby humans?
• It's vegan-waffle party time! And your city can join the fun.
• A 46-year-old Middle-American man goes vegan … and likes it.
• Oh, my goodness gracious! Fluffy baby orangutaaaaaaaans!

Well, this has been simply delightful. Thanks for coming over and having some afternoon soup. We should do this again sometime.

Posted by Missy Lane

OK, people, we’ve reached that point in the week where I try to palm a bunch of indiscriminately chosen links off on you in an attempt to purge a folder called “blog ideas” that sits in my Outlook and silently judges me. Some of these links will doubtless change your life; others will make you wish you had those precious seconds back again. But you’ll never know which is which until you click them. It’s like that scene in Flash Gordon where Flash reaches into a series of holes in a log, knowing that one of them contains a poisonous reptile. Any Flash Gordon fans in the house? I really liked that movie.

Anyway, here are some links. Many of them are relevant to the subjects traditionally covered on this blog.

1. Fancast has a great list of TV’s most (and least) animal-friendly TV shows.
2. All the people who have been clamoring for a claymation version of PETA’s Sex Talk video can now stop emailing me. Don’t speak English? Here it is in Spanish.
3. Thank you, Matchbox 20.
4. And thank you, Margaret Cho.
5. Remind you of any comment threads you’ve seen recently?
6. As a representative of PETA, I take it upon myself to officially endorse this ant farm.
7. Eggs, the silent killer.
8. My favorite part is where they say “camel beauty pageant” as if it was the most normal thing in the world. Probably a fairly lousy experience for the camels.
9. OK, this one’s a treasure hunt: Check out this article about PETA’s president on Wikipedia, click “Discussion,” then scroll all the way down to the bottom and read the debate about whether the dog in the photo should be credited along with Ingrid. It’s just so … apt.
10. Do hamburgers cause crime?
11. That thing about fish having a “3-second memory”? Total B.S.
12. Would you wear your dog? Me neither.

Hopefully that’ll tide you over through the weekend, but just in case you’re not totally sick of links to random web phenomena, let’s finish things up with this highly professional stop-motion video for my new hit song about Boston. Enjoy!

You could look at it as a half-assed blog entry with no real topic, but I prefer to think of it as 10 blogs for the price of one! Either way, it’s all I’m offering this Friday afternoon, which means it’s time to brace yourselves for another edition of Internet soup! So, um, here are a bunch of links. Some of them are pretty funny.

1. Portland, Oregon, is now the proud home of … the world’s first vegan strip bar. Congratulations, Portland.
2. Some kinds of taxidermy are OK in my book.
3. These awkward new anti-KFC shirts are guaranteed to make you popular in a hurry.
4. Some meat advertising just does our job for us.
5. We’ve got plenty of resources to help people humanely address conflicts with wildlife in their home, but what the hell are you supposed to do about that hipster infestation?
6. Fish: Smarter than your kids. And cunning, too.
7. What’s so unnatural about grown men drinking milk?
8. French and Saunders like their fur coats “fresh.”
9. Shouldn’t animals be doing more for the animal rights movement?

OK, that’s all I’ve got. If you’re still aching for more Internet hilarity, you can check out my groovy music videos here. But be warned, you will never get those 10 minutes of your life back.

I haven’t done one of these in a long time, but I’ve been getting so many great links lately that I thought I’d bring it back. Also, to be honest, I’m still recovering from yesterday’s tragic events, and I could use a little light relief. So here you go: The very best that the Internet has to offer this week on themes at least tangentially connected to animal rights. Enjoy!

1. Miss Manners straight-up represents on uncivilized non-vegans.
2. Deer: 1. Hunter: 0. I think I may have posted this one before at some point, but hey, it’s a winner. Thanks to Robert Maloney for sending in the link.
3. Once you GoVeganRadio, you can never go back …
4. PETA VP Dan Mathews talks about Nancy Reagan’s new coat
5. This year’s most vegetarian-friendly university is revealed!
6. Ingrid Newkirk’s letter to the editor about Matthew Scully’s Dominion was published in The New York Times today. You can find that here.
7. And Alec Baldwin fights for healthier school lunches.

If that’s not enough to while away the last 20 minutes or so of your work day, you should have a listen to the segment about vegan Thanksgivings on NPR’s Splendid Table, featuring the good folks from Post Punk Kitchen. Definitely worth a listen if cooking’s your thing.

And when you’re finished with all that, why not treat yourself to the website I made about my recent trip to Canada. They didn’t let me in.

P.S. Don’t forget to check out I Am an Animal tonight on HBO!

Have you voted for North America’s sexiest vegetarian yet? Here's an interview with one of the finalists in Sacramento.

I had heard of this video about the “Bionic Burger” but I had never seen it until today. Gross.

Nancy from LA sent me this amazing story about a cat who must have heard about the Iams recall and took matters into her own hands, err, paws. Nancy said the cat must have decided, "Screw this, I'm going for fish and chips."

Guess which dinosaur is an ancestor to the chicken.

In case you're looking for another reason to go vegetarian . . . bacon may cause lung damage. For real.

Is your rescued dog lonely? Maybe this could help. I don’t even want to think about the cleanup.

Chicken ghost stories.

Andy Dick is funny. Check out his spoof Gap ad.

And finally, here’s a great piece from ABC on our chinchilla ranch investigation.

As always, if you find something cool on the Internet that you think other PETA Files readers would like, be sure to send it to me. Thanks!

Your weekly installment of things I’ve found even slightly funny or interesting on the internet. Here we go . . .

If you know what “counting the omer” is, then you will love this veggie take on the Jewish tradition.

I know it’s a little creepy, but my friend Marta absolutely worships Zach Braff, and she made me post this. I apologize in advance.

Pigs are smart. And cute. Please go vegetarian.

Who says don’t bite the hand that feeds you?

Check out this amazing story about a very unique Canada goose. You've got to wonder if her mate fell victim to a hunter, since these birds normally mate for life.

Kind of cool anti-seal hunt cartoon.

Never, ever, ever forget that when it comes to dolphins and unicorns, dolphins are cuter. I know its kind of old, but I just rediscovered it this week!

And finally, I know this post is supposed to be all about the internet, but this is so cool that I just had to share. Ad agency DDB Warsaw and AMS Outdoor Advertising have teamed up to run this amazing ad all over Warsaw, Poland. It is one of the finalists our Young Guns ad competition.

I’ve got some wild stuff for you this week, so let’s get into it.

This couple REALLY loved their dog. Um, wow.

I don’t particularly like Alanis Morissette or the Black Eyed Peas all that much, but somehow putting them together is, well, magical.

I promise I didn't take the clown’s missing bike, but I bet the tip line in the story works for telling Ringling what you think of its animal abuse too.

Did you see the story about blood from an animal lab spraying out of a sewer onto people on the street? So disgusting.

Here’s a pretty decent piece about pork from The New York Times, just in time for Easter.

OK, is it me or is this just beyond crazy? We’re at war and the Army is spending millions putting on a rodeo. WTF, Army?

I love this funny bit about PETA protesting the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Amnesty Internation protesting PETA, the ACLU protesting Amnesty, the Christian Coalition protesting the ACLU, and Fred Phelps protesting everyone and everything. A for effort on this one, Spoof guys.

Zoos will do anything to get their animals to breed so they can make a buck, I swear.

These videos show just how insane and detached from the rest of the world the pork industry really is. Insanity.

And finally . . .

Here’s a short animated video about the seal hunt, done by Canadian Graeme MacKay, editorial cartoonist from The Hamilton Spectator.