An attempt at grabbing a free lunch turned into a battle with an amusement park ride this squirrel never asked for. The bird feeder looks unassuming enough at first, but it turns into a merry-go-round on steroids as soon as the squirrel climbs on. Amazingly enough, it manages to hold on for a ...

If we had to come up with something we absolutely would never want to have to do, wrestling a mountain lion and freeing it by hand would be a good contender. It's a good thing for us we know just who to contact if we ever end up in that situation. Not only does this hunter hardly hesitate to ...

A grizzly bear unknowingly became the subject of an experiment while stumbling upon a deer hanging from a tree. Little did he know that this deer had an electric charge running through it that would make eating it difficult. The deer had been roadkill that had been tied up and connected to an ...

What do you do when you have a lot of time on your hands and some squirrels running around the yard? If you're anything like this guy, you build a contraption that baits squirrels into sitting on it before being flung 50 feet into the middle of a pond. This was apparently the second squirrel in ...

We're not sure why it's not obvious swimming in a crocodile trap is a really bad idea. On one hand, it's a crocodile trap filled with bait (more if you swim inside it) and that means there are almost definitely some crocodiles nearby. On the other hand, well there is no other hand — it's a ...

Trapping a bear isn't always an easy task. That's especially true when the bear weighs in at 605 pounds. After a particular bear caused continual damage to a home in a neighborhood in Duluth Heights. Stone Boulanger of Stone River Wildlife Control says it was the largest nuisance bear he's ...

Snakes can be incredibly hard to catch. That's partly because they can be elusive and the fact that not a lot of people like dealing with them. This young woman makes an effective trap with an electric fan guard. It makes catching a snake as easy as cutting a plastic bottle and digging a shallow ...

Everyone has their own opinion about using traps to catch fish. Some will watch this video and enjoy it for what it is, while others will complain that it's not real fishing. Trapping fish is illegal in most cases in the states and it requires proper licensing and monitoring to make sure you ...

It turns out something being complicated doesn't mean it's more effective, especially in the case of mousetraps. Shawn Woods has a YouTube channel that focuses on different mousetraps, among other things. Woods purchased this mousetrap from 1843 and  it's a pretty incredible invention with all ...

Though he was technically trespassing, these measures may be a little extreme, especially considering the landowner had never confronted Ogin about it.

Crab traps are a simple enough concept. You drop the trap in the water and up comes some of the most delicious eating in the ocean when you pull it back up. But what exactly does that process look like? Well wonder no more, because this GoPro mounted on a crab trap is here to answer all your ...

How do you control a harmful invasive species before it damages reef ecosystems? NOAA and its partners have developed and released designs for new lionfish traps that could provide the first realistic means of controlling invasive deep-water lionfish populations and support the development of a ...

Feral hogs are a problem, but in many states they're more like a plague. With the ability to decimate crops and bring ruin to lands in extremely short amounts of time, it's no wonder it's open season on these nuisances throughout the entire year. Hunting them isn't enough in a lot of cases, that's ...

Forget the old days of mousetraps that would leave behind a mess after crushing whichever unfortunate rodent tried to go for the cheese, they are no more. This zip tie mouse trap makes catching the little critters as painless and mess free as possible. Thanks to this DIY job, all it takes to get ...