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.
When you’re in the wild, you expect to encounter wild animals, but here are six times animals showed up in weird and unacceptable places.
An opossum in Nebraska learned the hard way that a human’s diet doesn’t always work out after it ate an entire chocolate cake from Costco.
A massive whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off the coast of Chili as his father looked on in horror. See it go down.
Camping just might be an inflation-proof activity, according to The Dyrt’s 2025 Camping Report. See some of the report’s insights here.
A young deer was struggling for its life and likely within minutes from dying when two men pulled her out of an icy lake and into their boat.
Not all big cats can roar like a lion, a tiger, or a leopard. Snow leopards make this sound instead. (Volume up.)
Male Amazon river dolphins swim to the surface, roll over, and pee straight up into the air, and they don’t do it for the ladies.
When this woman came across a mountain lion in a nearby tree, she had the opposite reaction a lot of people would have. Watch it here.
A hiker and her dog had a beautiful experience in British Columbia when they came across a pod of dolphins putting on quite a show.
A Canadian man made a huge, beautiful piece of snow art—a large bull moose—and it seems to be bringing everyone together.