Melt your holiday stress with these adorable animal live cams

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Family holidays can be stressful: you have to sit through hours of never-ending meals that run high on alcohol and carbohydrates, all the while engaging in meaningful conversations with relatives you barely saw all year. Add in the contentious election, and politics is likely to dominate many Thanksgiving tables — the perfect storm for some holiday-themed family drama.

This is where the live animal cameras come in. They’re everything you need to melt your holiday stress — because it’s never a bad idea to watch some cuddly panda bears play around in China or some badass jellyfish float around an aquarium in California. When Uncle Harry is yelling at Aunt May about how the family assets get divided or the Paris accords, you may need to take a break to chill out. Here are some adorable live animal cams to help with that. Enjoy!

Pandas

This live cam is streaming giant pandas in a panda center located in the Gengda Xingfu Valley, in China. Pandas are no longer considered an endangered species, but they’re still listed as “vulnerable” to extinction by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. There are just over 1,800 pandas in the wild, according to the WWF. And their existence is threatened by climate change and habitat loss. Pandas eat mostly bamboo and they play key ecological roles in the bamboo forests where they live, spreading seeds and keeping the forests healthy.

Jellyfish

The Monterey Bay Aquarium in California began live-streaming its purple-striped jellyfish on November 8th. The jellies, which can reach three feet in diameter, live off the coast of California and feed on zooplankton, other jellies, and fish eggs. Young cancer crabs can be found clinging to purple-striped jellyfish — sometimes even their guts — to eat parasitic amphipods that damage the jellies, according to the aquarium website. Their sting isn’t fatal, but it hurts. The live stream is only available from 10AM ET to 9PM ET.