This 'Bucket-Cam' Video Lets You Watch Cute Wild Critters Drinking Water From a Bucket

To get up close and personal with the wild desert animals that roam Southwest Texas, an enterprising cameraman named John Wells left a camera at the bottom of a water bucket. Wells—who lives in Terlingua, Texas, and runs an off-the-grid, sustainable living experiment he’s dubbed the Field Lab—ended up capturing plenty of antennas, beaks, and fuzzy muzzles as insects, rodents, birds, a rabbit named George, and a bison named Ben helped themselves to a drink.

Wells uploaded the video onto YouTube last week, where it was soon spotted by Mashable. "Everybody loves water in the desert," Wells joked on the site. "A burro just happened to come by in time to be included. Ben went against the script and decided to just nudge the bucket. You can lead a steer to water but you can’t make him drink. Note: The swimming bees were rescued."

[h/t Mashable]