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A viral video shows a hippo charging through the water at a group’s safari boat in Botswana. Watch it here.
A lighthearted moment turned terrifying when a man got struck by lightning while filming his golf partner struggling with a stuck golf cart.
After a valiant fight for her life at a wildlife-rehabilitation center, Jackie the beloved bald eagle has died. Learn more here.
Two mountain bikers at Whistler Mountain Bike Park in Canada nearly ran into a couple of black bears hanging out on the trail. Watch here.
A diver says he harbors no hard feelings toward the shark that attacked him off the coast of Fiji, even though it nearly cost him his leg.
Which is more ridiculous, a squirrel completely unafraid of standing next to a hawk or a hawk that can’t catch a squirrel standing next to it?
One woman came across a rattlesnake in the water in South Carolina, and she’s sharing it to remind others that rattlesnakes can swim.
Wildlife officials fired tranquilizer darts at a mountain lion in a residential area, but the animal pulled one of the syringes out.
A state park recently shared an image of a cooler that had been padlocked shut . . . and yet, a bear still managed to rip it open. See here.
Earlier this week, an accident presumably related to rock climbing claimed the life of Jake Whisenant, a speed-climbing record holder.