INYIM Creatures

A Spoonful of Whimsy: A curious monkey sits beside a sacred Nandi statue and repeatedly tries to offer the stone bull its banana.

Meet Bolivia’s tiny tilcayo, a newly described wild cat from the Yungas cloud forest weighing about three pounds and rewriting the feline family tree.

A Spoonful of Whimsy: a pack of wild coyotes breaks the early-morning silence outside a San Diego neighborhood with one very loud chorus.

Wednesday Whimsy meets Gösta, the Cocker Spaniel puppy whose excitement can trigger cataplexy, sudden muscle collapse and the occasional involuntary nap.

Meet Maple, Toronto Zoo’s tiny ball of munchkin’ — a rambunctious, tenacious baby pygmy hippo already stealing hearts while shining a light on an endangered species.

Once upon a time in nature history, the Kauaʻi ʻōʻō sang through thee island’s forests. By 1987, only its haunting final calls remained — one of conservation history’s most heartbreaking endings.

Katta-kun was no ordinary pelican. The Tokiwa Park favorite became famous for regularly visiting a nearby kindergarten and bonding with generations of students.

Aerial photographer Carl Sbarounis captured a whale shark, a 16-foot great white and spinetail devil rays moving through Southern California’s warm waters.

One very fuzzy Tennessee pedestrian takes over downtown Gatlinburg as a black bear calmly crosses the street and delivers peak A Spoonful of Whimsy energy.