A cute moment caught on camera shows a mama black bear and her young cub enjoying a cool swim in a backyard pool.

The Nature Conservancy recently shared trail-cam footage of a black bear being silly, as it playfully sniffs the camera. Watch here.

A trail runner and his dog turned a corner and nearly ran straight into a massive, cinnamon-colored black bear. Watch here.

When wildlife officials got a call about a black bear cub tangled in a soccer net, they also had to contend with mama bear.

A group of black bears in northern California hit the jackpot—except they didn’t realize honking the car horn would give them away.

A funny TikTok video shows exactly what a couple of house cats thought about a bear visiting their home’s porch in Connecticut. Watch here.

A man knowingly crawled into a cave with a hibernating bear, and he called it “an incredible experience.” Watch the footage here.

A viral video shows a colorful family of black bears—one brown, one blonde, and one black—in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park. Watch here.

There was a black bear in a tree in front of a Florida middle school for about 10 hours. At least one teacher was really stoked about it.

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.