Chapter 1 of 4
Winter
Snowy roads and winter woods — wolves, moose and bears in the cold.
Chapter 2 of 4
After dark
Dusk roads, dark forests — the wild after the light goes.
Chapter 3 of 4
Close encounters
A windshield, a tent, a cabin window — the moments the wild comes close.
Chapter 4 of 4
Wild country
Marsh, savannah, forest trail — the wild at its widest.
The record
85,544,748 lifetime Instagram views of a single reel, the bighorn ram (Meta export)
The channel's most-watched reel, published on Instagram on Nov 26, 2025 — eight days after the brand's first publication on Nov 18, 2025. The published Meta export records 85,544,748 lifetime Instagram views for it, and approximately 87.5M cumulative views across the Instagram and Facebook publications of the same creative.
Featured in
Outside Magazine
“Generative AI Just Killed the Wildlife Video. Should You Care?”
Outside's 10 December 2025 long-form article on the rise of AI-generated wildlife video interviews Omar Sherif (identified as Omar) about @Wildencountermoments, the Instagram presence of the Wild Animal Encounters brand. He describes the project as “a digital media startup” and its films as “hyper-real digital cinema”.
Wild Animal Encounters alone, from Meta Business Suite records:
- 830,467,535
- documented Facebook and Instagram views, Nov 18, 2025 – Jul 15, 2026
- 231
- publication records past one million views
- 99.99%
- organic distribution in the reporting window
The three figures above come from Meta Business Suite records for this brand only. Publishing was paused from mid-January 2026 because of platform restrictions imposed by Meta (owner-disclosed context, July 2026 verification). The brand's evidence record (opens in a new tab)
WAE Media's portfolio totals across all of its brands are published on waehq.com. Portfolio data transparency (opens in a new tab)
Where to watch
- Instagram@wildencountermoments
- Facebook/WildEncounterMoments
- YouTube@WildEncounterMoments
- TikTok@wildanimalencounters
- Threads@wildencountermoments
- X@WildAnimalAI
On 20 October 2026 (UTC) the public profiles of these accounts showed these follower counts: Facebook 973,640 and TikTok 7,277 (exact readings), and Instagram 210K (rounded on the profile, so at least 209,500). These are follow relationships at one point in time, not unique people. YouTube showed no public count and is not listed. Follower record WAE-CLM-2026-008 (opens in a new tab)
How it's made
Made with AI. Said plainly.
Wild Animal Encounters is AI-generated digital cinema. It is not documentary footage, and it is not a record of how real animals behave.
Many people who care about wildlife, including conservation voices, have raised real concerns about AI wildlife video: that it can blur what is real, and pull attention away from the animals and the people who study and protect them. Those concerns deserve a straight answer, so we keep the line clear — these are stories, made with AI, and we say so.
WAE Media commits one percent of annual profits to organizations working in conservation, education and community through Pledge 1%.
How it's madeAbout the Pledge 1% commitment (opens in a new tab)
WAE Agentic Media OS
The system behind the channel.
Running this channel since November 2025 showed what to make, what to repeat and what to retire. WAE is building Agentic Media OS from that work, as an operating system for media teams.
It is being built so that every brand rule, every video and every result stays on record, and the next decision starts from evidence.
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