Our 10 Favorite Animal Videos of 2016
From a googly-eyed sea creature to a "bear bathtub," we take a look back at this year’s wildest videos.
There’s no getting around it: 2016 has been a wild year.
We’re referring, of course, to the wealth of awe-inspiring, bizarre, and controversial animal videos we’ve shared over the last 12 months, including a few created by National Geographic.
Some of these popular videos have given us rare glimpses at poorly understood animal behaviors—and posed some unique challenges. How do we know a video is real and not altered in some devious way? Did the person doing the filming cause harm by their actions or by their very presence? Does spreading word of a rare animal put it at risk from poachers or others? Is a behavior being taken out of context, resulting in misinformation and fear?
There aren’t easy answers to
