This is a video from Gatlinburg, Tennessee, of a bear discovering a backyard grill currently in use cooking some burgers, and helping itself to all ten of them. I can’t tell if that grill is really flimsy or if that bear is really strong, but the way the grill sways

This is a lovely video of virtuoso cellist Yo-Yo Ma performing Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in the wilds of the Great Smokey Mountains, setting up right next to hiking path and babbling brook. So relaxing, isn’t it? The perfect escape from the hectic pace of life. Me? I have

This is a video from The Voyageurs Wolf Project of a few months-old wolf pups discovering a trail cam and launching their own Scooby Doo style investigation. I like the one that was trying to eat bugs at 0:30, I see a lot of myself in that pup. From what

Reminding me a lot of myself after work with my dogs, this is a video from the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Sichuan, China, of a recent panda mother cuddling her cub before the cub is given a vet checkup. Precious moments. Way more precious than the

These are a couple videos of mountain lover Madison Elrick on Lake Louise in Canada’s Banff National Park as she rows through some candle ice (aka needle ice). What’s candle ice? I’m glad you asked, because I’m just the man to Wikipedia copy/paste that for you: Candle ice is a

An annual tradition at the Oregon Zoo, this is a compilation of a number of different animals all enjoying some delicious pumpkin, straight from the jack-o-lantern’s head. it was a fun video to watch, and if raw pumpkin were as delicious as these animals make it seem, maybe I wouldn’t

This is a video from the David Attenborough narrated Planet Earth II, highlighting the sword-billed hummingbird, a hummer that’s evolved a beak longer than its entire body to access nectar no other bird can. Now that is an impressive beak! Semi-related: did you know that in all the animal kingdom,

While investigating the waters of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument in Hawaii, the ROV Little Hercules spotted a rarely seen dumbo octopus just floating in the current. Apparently the marine biologists watching the feed were particularly happy to see this dumbo octopus, because the last one they spotted was in