monkeys A 911 call sends California police to a primate who was just monkeying around Carla Sinclair

parody "Star Wars" if only Wes Anderson had made it Jason Weisberger

photography Bear poses for 400 selfies at Colorado park Thom Dunn

Delightful Creatures Meet Lepidobatrachus laevis, a frog with a ridiculous scream Jennifer Sandlin

Monsters The Honey Island Swamp Monster is a cryptid you should know Jennifer Sandlin

Delightful Creatures Two cats freak out when their human pal wears a cat mask (video) Carla Sinclair

death Human burials in the sky count on assistance from vultures David Pescovitz

spiders Scientists convert dead spiders into cybernetic grabbers Thom Dunn

strange beasts of the present These eel gobies look like science fiction monsters Jennifer Sandlin

rap Why is Korean rap so dope? Devin Nealy

art Songs Forevermore: Marnie Weber's incredible new exhbit at ODD ARK•LA Popkin

biology Why do animals have butts? David Pescovitz

Science Glass algae and other oddities of Antarctica's microworld David Pescovitz

Delightful Creatures Scan of a 1921 book about insects Mark Frauenfelder

books Support Rudy Rucker's Kickstarter for his new book "Return to the Hollow Earth" David Pescovitz

ink Popular tattoos 5,000 years ago were sheep Clive Thompson

rats An update from the War on Rats Jason Weisberger

Southern Reach Trilogy The Strange Bird – an excerpt from Jeff VanderMeer's new Borne story Jeff VanderMeer