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For more views of the same area, check out Explore's other animal cams like our safari cam or the ones posted at the watering hole or river. What kinds of animals visit the watering hole?

Watch brown bears as they fish for salmon at Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park in Alaska. This is a secondary view to Explore's live bear cam.

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Look out for giraffes, elephants, monkeys and other African animals as they drink and take a swim in a river in Kenya.

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By Mike Fitz If you watch any of the wildlife or animal-themed cams on explore.org, then you know that they provide an exceptional lens through which we can view the lives of individual animals.

Bear families navigate a gauntlet of threats to remain safe. Cubs experience a short apprenticeship with their mothers, and they must absorb her lessons if they are to survive life as independent bears. …

The colorful-billed seabirds have begun their annual return to the Gulf of Maine’s Seal Island National Wildlife Refuge to settle in for the nesting season, and now you can watch it all live on explore!

(Thanks to explore.org for covering the publication and open access fees.) Brown bears were characterized historically as solitary and asocial. Yet, bears are intelligent, recognize each other as …