This is a video of Tiktok user miarosemia8 filming her relatively fit boyfriend at the beach when a sea lion appears out of nowhere (that water looks shallow!) and gives chase while Mia screams. There’s also a video of the aftermath, which involves the sea lion gloating in the sand,

This is a video from Gatlinburg, Tennessee of an oblivious woman on her cell phone being followed by a bear outside a motel. After the person filming gets her attention (during which they absentmindedly filmed cars in the parking lot), the woman turns around, sees the bear, and does what

This is a video from two hunters in a tree blind of a bear that’s chased up their tree by another bear, and proceeds to hang out with them briefly, giving them each a good sniff before exiting the tree. Of all the trees in the woods, it gets chased

This is a video from some adventure-seekers in Tonga diving with a couple humpback whales, who just narrowly miss a whale’s tail flip. I don’t know, maybe don’t get so close to them. They don’t come to where you live and fill your house with plastic, do they? While certainly

This is a video from a wildlife camera set up to record penguins (presumably disguised as a newspaper to blend in) that two curious emperor penguins knock over and proceed to stare at in the cutest way possible. Penguins, am I right? They’re like the us of birds. “Speak for

This is a video shared by Sarah Bole of Grand Lake, Colorado of her dog Dash (a Bichon Frise?) staring down a large mountain lion through a glass door in her home. “This is my house, you overgrown stray!” I imagine Dash telepathically communicating with the feline. Also, “If you

This is a video of a group of curious manatees watching a man wearing festive holiday pajama bottoms in his See Through Canoe while he relaxes on the water near Saint Petersburg, Florida. You know, it’s pretty crazy to think sailors actually used to mistake manatees for mermaids, isn’t it?

This is a video of a black bear loitering around a woman’s front door, who then closes the door after the woman insists that it does. Apparently this was not this woman’s first bear rodeo. Good bear! For reference, a bad bear would have torn that door off its hinges