Bethanie is a writer, editor, and author of animal-science books for kids. She covers camping, hiking, gear, inspiring stories, wildlife, adventure travel, and more for the Outdoors.com. She always has a few camping trips on the calendar.
A swan was not messing around when it went straight for a wakeboarder and took him down in spectacular fashion. Watch it here.
An impressively calm safari guide knew how to handle two rhinos and several guests when a rhino bluff charged the group. Watch here.
Reddit user xMaxtonic took a photo during a hike, then realized there was an animal lurking somewhere in the scene. Can you find the deer?
A heron swallowed an eel whole and thought it had its meal in the bag. Unfortunately for the heron, the eel wasn’t going down without a fight.
A missing man in Turkey unknowingly searched for himself in a forest with a search party . . . and this went on for hours.
A hungry black bear broke through a window and entered a nursing home in western Pennsylvania a few days ago, and things got weird.
A woman bought her mom a bird feeder to attract hummingbirds, but a bear showed up instead. Whoops. See her funny video here.
A father-daughter hike on Mount Katahdin became a double tragedy when both hikers died due to to “treacherous” weather conditions.
A resident of Cypress, Texas got a shock when her doorbell cam went off, and it was a large snake. (She didn’t answer.) See footage here.
A compilation of trail-cam footage from Swan Valley in northwest Montana shows some really great moments in nature. Watch here.