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.
“Witch paddles” across the country allows paddlers to celebrate spooky season as a bonafide coven of outdoors lovers. Watch here.
Hidden cameras caught a very rare anoa birth on film, likely for the very first time ever. See it here, plus the baby’s first steps.
A frustratingly blurry photo shows something in Salem, New Hampshire—mountain lion or bobcat? It depends on whom you ask.
A large black bear went for a stroll down the street in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and a woman got it on video. Watch it here.
Visitors to Isle Royale National Park got a shock when a moose went stomping and huffing through the campsite. Watch here.
A resident of a Chicago suburb was shocked to spot a rare and exotic wild cat near her home. What’s a caracal doing in Illinois?
An absolutely massive python writhes around after having just eaten a cow. (We’re confused, too.) Watch here.
Can you find the deer in both of these photos? Correction, can you find the *real* deer? We love a good hidden-animal challenge.
A family dog went camping for the first time and wasn’t impressed in the slightest. Watch a funny video from the dog’s owner here.
Some deer shocked a South Carolina resident by doing something unexpected—leaping off a bridge into the water. Watch it go down.