INYIM Creatures

A cinnamon-colored black bear wandered into Aspen’s Saturday Market, helped itself to bread and pastries, then was hazed away safely by police.

One second of flight. A mountain goat launches across a steep rocky gap in a dramatic wildlife moment made for Tuesday Mo-ti-va-tion.

Sunday Sonics meets the caracal — a striking wild cat with tufted ears, serious hunting skills and some of the strangest chirps, squeaks and calls in nature.

An elderly woman lets her black cat steal the spotlight while modeling handmade crochet, knits, artwork and crafts in this week’s Caturday pick.

A Spoonful of Whimsy revisits the 2017 Estonian TV segment where a roe deer met a microphone with several silent seconds and impeccable accidental comic timing.

Wednesday Whimsy! Elisa Camacho gets the shock of a lifetime when her roguish cat leaps through the open sunroof at about 50 mph and ends up riding on the roof of her car.

Tuesday Textures: A brown pelican somehow finds the right door at NOAA Fisheries in Panama City, where staff remove fishing line, a treble hook and cactus spines before releasing it back into the wild.

Summer 2026 ends on one very relaxed note as a bear at Six Flags Wild Safari floats through the water, waves a paw and masters the bare necessities.

Woopsies! A 78-pound young mountain lion turns San Francisco’s Outer Sunset into an unexpected wildlife rescue before getting a GPS collar and a safe ride back to the wild.