ANIMALS

Tonight's shoutouts are dedicated to dogs and the people that love them maybe a little too much.

Rashida Jones talks about the time she was bitten by a famous chimp.

We visit LA-based canine groomer Jess Rona, see how theater group Phantom Limb combines human and puppet actors to surreal effect for their newest play, Memory Rings and finally head to the Kalashnikovv Gallery in Johannesburg.

From NYC to South Africa, we explore the best in art on Culture Beat.

Motherboard goes to Reunion Island to investigate why this once an idyllic surfers paradise has experienced an increase in shark attacks in recent years.

Motherboard speaks to the scientists tasked with developing foot-and-mouth disease vaccines at one of the most protected labs in the world.

We traveled to the southernmost tip of Chile to meet the beaver hunters in charge of crudely restoring order to its ecosystem.

In parts of Peru, there's an ancient culinary delicacy that consists of liquefying a rare frog. Drinking the concoction is said to cure a wide range of ailments, including bronchitis, tuberculosis, asthma, arthritis, even impotence.

Our crew traveled to remote Liberia to discover "Monkey Island," an area inhabited solely by former lab-tested chimpanzees who survived disease and two civil wars.

By reversing its aging process, Japan's tiny Turritopsis dohrnii jellyfish is one of the only known animals that has figured out how to defeat death.

We spent some time with one of America's last great circus families. Lions and tigers and bears and breastfeeding chimps, oh my!