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Hey Ya’ll! 

It’s puppy time! Service Dog Project staple, Merlow the marvelous great dane, is showing signs of pregnancy. 

Fans now have a chance to place your bets on how many pups she will expect next! Click here to learn more.

We Have Lift Off! 

Early this morning, Osprey chicks Poole and Pan gave their family something to look up to! - Click here to keep reading. 

Update on Divot the Bear

From the Bear Cam Rangers in Katmai National Park:

Earlier today, many of you saw the sow with a single cub at the Lower River. That is believed to have been Divot, 854, now with only one cub.

Keep reading the update here. 

Three Bears, No Goldilocks

Polar bear Ilka and her twin cubs take a cool swim in the Scandinavian Wildlife Park, Denmark last week. Ilka is also mother to famed bear, Siku, and the summer has the family practicing their swim moves. Click here to keep reading. 

(Thanks to Kathleen [tundra-voice cam op] for the snapshot!)

Five Best Sunset/Sunrise Snapshots from Live Cams

From Turtle Bay, Hawaii to the grasslands on the Bison Live Cam, we have amazing and serene snapshots from viewers! Thank you thank you!  A little pink, purple and blue hues to ease us into Monday morning. - See all the shots here! 

Wild News

From the bigcatkingdom:

Bornean Clouded Leopard or Neofelis Diardi (by AIRphotoHD)

The Sunda or Bornean Clouded Leopard was only identified to science in 2006, when genetic research indicated they were a separate species from the mainland Clouded Leopard Neofelis nebulosa. They have been separated from the mainland population for 2.8 million years.

“The Sunda clouded leopard is probably restricted to the Indonesian islands of Borneo and Sumatra. In Borneo, they occur in lowland rainforest, and at lower density, in logged forest.” Read more at WikipediaandWWF, and check out our rare sighting of an African leopard on the African Wildlife Live Cam this week! 

Colors of the Underwater Rainbow 

The fish are jumping this summertime in Katmai National Park and our new Underwater Live Bear & Salmon Cam gives you every angle of action.

Salmon “live in the northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and are anadromous, which means most types of salmon are born in fresh water, migrate to the sea, and return to freshwater to reproduce, or ‘spawn.’ Salmon appearance varies greatly from species to species.

Click here to keep reading. 

Five Best African Wildlife Cams Snapshots of the Week

Check out the five best African River Wildlife Live Cam snapshots from our viewers this week! We have beautiful vistas, elephants, long-neck giraffes - - no unicorns this time, but a rare leopard sighting!

See them all here! 

What’s Denver Holt Got for You?!

Click here to find out! 

Your Unanswered Questions from Puffin Live Chat

After last week's Puffin Live Cam Live Chat with Dr. Steve Kress, we had a few great questions but not enough time to answer them. Fear no more! Below, Dr. Kress took the time to circle back around and give some insight into your insightful questions! - Click here to have your questions answered! 

New Cam LIVE Today! 

Feeling cheeky, I see… Well then, check out our newest Chipmunk Live Cam!

Along a mountain ridge in Colorado, view life on the log with three species of chipmunks, two species of squirrel, and the occasional fox, deer, bear, antelope, and various bird species. - Click here to keep reading. 

Live Bear Chat TODAY & TOMORROW (7/24 & 7/25)

If you’ve enjoyed watching the exciting adventures of Otis, Grazer, Backpack, Holly and Beadnose – and the extraordinary views of Katmai’s National Park & Preserve – then we invite you to dig a little deeper with bear experts, Rangers Roy and Mike. 

Join us this afternoon (Thursday, July 24) at 5 p.m. Alaska Daylight Time (6 p.m. Pacific / 9 p.m. Eastern)  for a live chat with Rangers Roy and Mike where you can learn more about their field notes, ask questions about what you see on camera or about bears in general, and connect with other bear watchers from around the world. 

And join them again tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. Alaska Daylight Time (11 a.m. Pacific / 2 p.m. Eastern) for field notes, which is when they take a microphone and a mobile cam – and YOU! – into the field with them. 

There will be more opportunities to join live chats and field notes in the future, and we’ll post highlights and recaps on our YouTube channel so you can get caught up. 

We always want to hear from you! Share your snapshots on Twitter using #bearcam, or on ourFacebook page. 

Nothing butT Bears: The Five Best Bear Cam Snapshots of the Week

Well you’ve done it again! Thanks for the awesome snapshots and the … um… creativity!

The brown bears on the Live Cam don’t  always give us their best sides, but their backsides. Thanks to our viewers for these awesome snapshots!

Thanks to Nanc1, riverrock, Maureen, Dawn and Anna-Marie for the snapshots! (Oh and one from Ivymoss of a species we haven’t identified yet…) - Click here to see the snapshots! 

Five Best Kitten Rescue Cam Snapshots of the Week

Check out the five best Kitten Rescue Cam snapshots from our viewers’ snapshots this past week - like this curly, Kitten Rug, from “Octavio’s mom.”

Click here to see the rest! 

The three Hog Island osprey chicks stand at the edge of the nest, flap their wings, and peer into the distance.  Now that Poole, Pan, and Pia are approaching 7 weeks of age they prepare for the next phase in their lives by exercising those feathered wings and readying to take their first flight.  We can expect this leap by… (Click here to keep reading.)

Five Best Great Dane Photos of the Week

Thanks to YOU for these great snapshots from our multiple indoor and outdoor Service Dog Project Live Cams! The great dane pups and parents are particularly photogenic don’t you think? Check out the five best here! 

Those Teenaged Years Can Be Hard

A juvenile Tern hangs out on the Puffin Loafing Ledge.Click here to read.

Catch Some Zzzbras

Find out how the zebra got its stripes. 

(Thanks to CamOp Robin for the snapshot!)