Livestream wildlife cams are amazing. Sometimes.

The Explore Live Nature Cams YouTube channel has all kinds of wildlife livestream cams of bears, eagles, manatees, wolves, fish and even a sloth.

But bears don’t punch the clock. They don’t to show up to work at a certain time like you and me. The livestream is cool when they are spanking salmon in the river, but most of the time you are just looking at the rushing waters.

No problem. That can’t be relaxing, too. And we’ve encroached so much on wildlife as it is, we can’t possibly say to the bears, “Hey, bro, it would be nice if you could get on cam just after our family dinner when we can all gather round and watch you do that salmon-catching thing.”