Adorable Bear Cubs Cross Road With Help From Nurturing Mom

Jul 19, 2020

A video from 2019 shows mama bear encouraging her four cubs to cross the road in the Smokies, also known as the Great Smoky Mountains along the Tennessee–North Carolina border.

The thrill of new adventures is always around the corner for wild animals. Whether they’re newborn babies or seniors long into their lives, the world outside is filled with countless possibilities.

On a field trip like never before, the young balls of fur scamper up to the road. However, they have no idea just what a “road” is, and they apparently find it quite intimidating!

As their final destination was across the paved street, mama bear led them up to its edge. Obviously they would need to cross it, which surely the mother has done countless times before.

However, the adorable cubs made this just all the more tedious as they refused to move onto the pavement. It's really easy to see the apprehension on the faces of the little cubs. They stare at the road in a rather distrusting manner, unable to trust what appears to them to be an endless black river.

It almost seems as though some of the cubs have forgotten how to walk in the first place; they attempt to stand up only to plop back down on their little furry behinds.

There were four cubs in total, and two were able to muster up the courage in order to begin walking on the pavement with only a little help from mama bear. They were escorted across the road by their attentive mother, but the other two simply remained behind and continued whining.

Listening to their little cries is absolutely heartbreaking yet simultaneously quite adorable. We find ourselves rooting for the little fur babies because mama bear is there to keep them safe. As it was raining quite heavily, it really was quite the sorry scene when observing the little whines and wales and adorable arm flails of one of the cubs.

Although black bears can be very intimidating, National Geographic shares that they are not usually known to attack humans, much less be struck by their cars. However, bears can be very territorial and are highly protective of their cubs. It is around them that they have the potential to get the most aggressive.

It is often recommended that if a bear attacks you, that you make yourself as large as possible and start making noise. This is so that you can trick the bear into thinking that your larger and stronger than you really are, and since black bears don’t understand humans, they are just as spooked by the noises we make as we are of their terrifying roars!

Although there were not so many observers here, some were brave enough to stand by and film the entire scene. They were able to get some very good footage; the quality was so high that we can see the expressions on the faces of the bears quite easily! They either had a very good camera, or they were close enough to really capture the hilarious family’s emotions.

Either way, their amusement is plain for all to hear, and apparently the internet agrees with them.

Have you or your friends ever seen a bear and her cubs in the wild? What did they do? Did you have to scare them off somehow? Tell us in the comments!