12 of the best viral animal videos
Remember Keyboard Cat and Mean Kitty?
Below are some of the best viral animal videos around, it seems people just can't get enough of animals being cute and funny.
Mean Kitty Song
'The Mean Kitty Song' or 'Hey Little Sparta' is a song about Cory Williams' cat named Sparta who is 'mean', biting his owner and attacking everything sight.
Uploaded nine years ago this video has been viewed over 83 million times.
Otters Holding Hands
This adorable video to two otters floating together, holding hands, was recorded at Vancouver Aquarium and uploaded to YouTube in 2007, it has now had over 21 million views.
Dramatic Cat
This video shows a little moggy 'watching' TV before turning around to look at its owner - made more dramatic by the additon of some tense music. This particular video has now been viewed over 29 million times since it was uploaded in 2008.
Dramatic Chipmunk
The precursor to Dramatic Cat was Dramatic Chipmunk which has now had over 45 million views since 2007.
Tian Tian in the Snow
A recent upload, but already a hit online, this video shows Tian Tian, a giant panda playing in the snow at Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington DC. Since 23rd January 2016 this video has had over 2 million views.
Keyboard Cat
One of the best known viral videos is Keyboard Cat. The video shows 'Fatso' in 1984 being manipulated by his owner to make him look like he's playing an electronic keyboard. Sadly Fatso died in 1987, but the video was kept and uploaded to YouTube in 2007 having now received nearly 43 million views.
Cucumbers Scaring Cats
Late last year a number of videos showing cats being scared of cucumbers emerged. While there is no singular viral video a search on YouTube reveals hundreds of users who have experimenting scaring their cats. As the craze took off experts revealed that scaring a cat like this could result in psychological problems for your feline friend.
Slow Loris Tickle
For those that don't know a loris is a noctural animal often found in tropical forests. This video shows Sonya the loris being tickled, which she clearly loves. Sonya's tickles have been viewed over 1 million times since 2009.
Funny Cats Choir
There are plenty of cute videos showing kittens playing, but this one which has been viewed over five million times will have you going 'ahhh' every few seconds.
Cats Sleeping in Weird Positions
Cats love sleeping and as this compliation video shows some of them choose some pretty strange positions. This video has now been viewed over 26 millions times, who knew that watching animals sleep could be worth watching so many times?
Cat Standing on Two Legs
This cat clearly wanted to see something through the window and got on its back legs to do so. This video has had over seven million views since it was uploaded in 2009.
Junior the French Bulldog singing
Earlier this year this video emerged on Facebook appearing to show a French bulldog called Junior singing along to a cover of Rihanna's 'Diamonds'. The video was shared by Masters of Dirt of Facebook and has received 166,995 shares since the 10th January 2016.
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All figures quoted are correct at time of writing (5th February 2016).