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The Times Guide To The Top 20 Wildlife Webcams
1. Monterey Aquarium
Great selection of webcams to watch sea otters, kelp forest, penguins and the prized great white shark
Watch: outer bay cam
2. San Diego Zoo panda cam
Live cameras at the Giant Panda research station
Watch: Pandacam
3. National Geographic Wildcam Africa webcam
24-hour live broadcasting from Mashatu Game Reserve in Botswana
Watch: Africa Wildcam
4. New England Aquarium, Giant Ocean Tank
Watch divers feeding the sharks and fish live
Watch: Giant Ocean Tank cam
5. Smithsonian National Zoological Park Animal Cams
A multitude of animals from clouded leopards to orang-utans
Watch: Animal Cams
6. Bonaire National Marine Park Underwater Webcam
Megapixel camera at a depth of 15 metres at a coral reef drop-off
Watch: underwater webcam
7. RSPB Abernethy Forest
Red squirrels, crested tits and other Scottish woodland birds at this feeder camera
Watch: Aberneth Forest cam
8. Greenpeace Expedition cam
Follow the ship Esperanza in the Antarctic and maybe catch a glimpse of whale
Watch: Expedition cam
9. Andrew Cooper’s Wildlink
UK site with webcams featuring badgers and fledgling birds in season. Only active at dusk
Watch: Wildlink cam
10. Loch Ness livecams
Two webcams to help monster researcher Mikko Takala search for Nessie
Watch: Nessie livecams
11. Natural History Museum, London
Close-up views of flesh-eating beetles, leafcutter ants and honey bees at work
Watch: bugcams
12. Shamu cam
Watch the killer whale in its tank at SeaWorld, Orlando
Watch: Shamu cam
13. BBC Wildlife webcams
Raptors in Ireland, barn owls in Liverpool and Cumbrian osprey
Watch: BBC webcams
14. Africam
Brilliant site featuring leopards, elephants, eagles
Watch: Africam
15. South African National Parks
Webcam situated at a watering hole in Kruger National Park
Watch: Kruger watering hole cam
15. Vancouver Aquarium Sea Otters
Live sea otters and information about behaviours to look out for
Watch: Sea Otters
16. Munich Zoo
Watch feeding time in the jungle enclosure and elephant house
Watch: Munich Zoo webcam
17. Grizzly bears at Riverbanks Zoo
The best time to view the bears is early morning but remember the time difference
Watch: grizzly bears
18. International Wolf Center
Wolves can be elusive, even in captivity, but patience is rewarded with glimpses of the pack
Watch: wolves
19. Manatees at Dallas World Aquarium
Underwater action in the large freshwater river exhibit
Watch: manatees
20. Remote control Rhino cam
One of the best webcams with an interactive camera that lets you follow the animals around
Watch: rhino
And some of the worst wildlife webcams…
1. Musselcam
Watch a mussel grow very, very slowly live. Why?
Watch: musselcam
2. London Aquarium Pacific Tank
Watching sharks. Brilliant in theory. In practice a small blurry square.
Watch: Pacific tank sharks
3. USC Roach Camera
Giant Madagascan hissing cockroaches. Lots of them.
Watch: cockroaches




