Katmai National Park: brown bear mother grieving the passing of her cub
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- On October 23rd, 2015 -- captured on the Explore.org live webcams -- a Katmai National Park spring brown bear cup died after collapsing on October 21st from unknown causes.
The mother and surviving bear cub stayed with the cub off and on for the next two days while the fatally ill cub labored with its malady and eventually succumbed the evening of October 23rd.
This video begins the morning of October 24th where the mother and living cub keep vigil even while the mother tries still to get a response from the deceased cub. The video continues as the mother and cub eventually leave to go fishing, and in the interim three National Park Service bear techs arrive by boat to retrieve the cub so that they can have a necropsy performed on the animal to understand what caused its demise.
After the cub is removed, the mother and cub return a while later and discover the body gone, but stay in the area for quite awhile and then finally trace the dead cub's scent to the exact location where the rangers loaded the dead cub onto a boat to carry it away.
It's quite poignant -- but also amazing what can be captured on a live web feed. Hats off to Explore.org for their webcams, and to the National Park Service for allowing as to see realtime reality TV with no commercials or contrived scripted gravitas.
It doesn't matter, a human or a bear, it feels so sad watching anyone mourn their loss
indeed ! every time I come back to visit, I think what a nice Mother she is. every body would be close if this was a human family..
Bears aren't the only animal that has the emotions to mourn. One of our
dogs got hit by a car and soon died. Her best friend, our other dog,
sat by her body until my husband dug the grave...the next morning he
thought she had gone outside without him, and he ran to find her, and
rememberedmoaped around for
days. One of our horses stood by the sick horses stall the entire time she was sick and didn't leave her doorway until she died. Then he was very angry and ran around the field and snorted and pounded the ground. Both
of those animals recovered the shock of their losses, and actually lived long
lives, and are still missed by us.
This is so tragic.
I CAN NOT BEAR TO WATCH THIS VIDEO , WHEN ANY ANIMAL CROSSES OVER , IT DEMORALIZES AND DEPRESSES ME TREMENDOUSLY , I DEARLY LOVE ALL ANIMALS , THE TREASURE OF THIS EARTH , AND THE ONLY LOYAL COMPANIONS MAN CAN EVER KNOW , BLESSED BE ALL ANIMALS .
Elephants grieve their loved ones too!
@@marjorjorietillman856 elephants grieve in a more involved or complex way than most animals they are highly intelligent animals and even reverence the bones of their dead comrades
@@garyhughes9649 Yes! They are amazingly respectful of their deceased loved-ones and comrades! I really like Elephants! They are so family oriented and how they stay in their lanes towards their fellow elephant!
The lil one is consoling mommy. Its a beautiful gesture on a sad day .
Rest lil cub ,rest in peace 💐💐
How human are animals or are we more like them so much love
You can just feel the mother's pain through the lens of the camera. *"to find the courage to walk away, is sometimes harder than it is to stick around."*
Well said.
This is a lesson we can experience on our own lives. We said.
So sad, and beautiful at the same time. A mother's love is an amazing thing.
Does anyone know how it was killed?
Yeah, the big difference, they don't abort their young like humans!! They'll die for their young!!!
@@mauramacneil5417 The park rangers removed it for tests to answer your question.
Ty for answering questions
Those of us viewing the cams at Katmai by Explore sat for hours watching her while she was protecting and mourning her dying cub. Lots of tears were shed that day.
Why? It's just an animal. One cub dies, more fish for the rest of'em.
@@viking956 It's called compassion.
@@grandmaj5046 And yet I'll bet these same people who "shed tears for a dead bear" probably have no similar....wait for it...."compassion" for their fellow human beings who fall on hard times.
a number of years ago a family of eagles lost their nest and probably lost their chicks, to a no name storm. They sought solace from me because they saw me interacting with other animals. I visited some butchers for meat for them. After two years of visits from them, they brought two chicks to visit. So I had mom and dad and the chicks and three cats, all in my yard at the same time. They would call me from the trees each morning.They all did just fine together.
Lovely story 💞
This is so true! When animals see compassionate humans interact with other animals they become drawn to them. When in trouble they ll go straight to our door. I found out today that it's much deeper than that though.
I love it when people share there stories about interacting with these beautiful animals,any animal..
Makes my day,stay safe&stay well..
Modern day Snow White …nice lol
Thank you for Sharing
Of all the animal videos I have watched this has to be the saddest one I have ever seen. Just to see her mourning the loss of her baby is heartbreaking.
Unbelievably sad and to watch the other cub snuggle up to her for comfort he's feeling the loss as well. She is clearly mourning. She is keeping vigil outside of where you brought the cub too. How could anyone say animals don't feel like we do, this is proof they do. Thank you for showing this. Thank you for showing the grieving of a mother for her baby instead of showing when it happened. It's important for people to see the emotions of animals so that hopefully one day us humans can all pull together on saving the other species that share this Earth with us instead of only being interested in what suits us. Great filming as well. Thank you. 💖
We will all mourn with you Mom
What really moved me to tears was the moment when the young cub "kissed" his dead sibling. A very emotional video. How come no other videos of Bear 451 and surviving cub after her loss?
Hope both the mama bear and the young cub are still alive & healthy.
Poor Mama bear. Made me cry.
Just goes to prove every living being had feelings and sentiments very sad my heart breaks for her.
Timestamps about 1:15. Boy that nose is working overtime. This has got to be the hardest thing I've watched in a long time. My heart aches for her 💔
Wish I knew what happened to her baby 😟
Animals are so loving and protective of their cub's. I felt so sad for mama bear with her cub passing suddenly. They're beautiful animals and so intelligent too 💞🐗
I remember seeing a programme some time ago - when a gamekeeper died, on the day of his funeral the gamekeepers cottage was surrounded by elephants who had walked for miles to grieve his passing. How did they know he had died. The funeral cars had difficulty getting to the house to take the family, it was surrounded by elephants. Obviously he cared for them and loved them and they knew that.
That reminds me of a true story I saw on the news once.....A man passed away and his German shepard literally laid on his grave grieving daily for the rest of its life . The dog was brought to its owners grave and constantly returned from there to visit .
Omg ... you made me cry
Hatci co,not sure i have spelt that correctly..but its a beautiful film about a japanese akita.
I have got a japanese akita,they are such beautiful dogs..
Love all animals..
@@skullrose8985 Hachi I know the film .. it's heartbreaking at the end ...
@@lyncressler2608 i know,my girlfriend was in tears. We also have a japanese akita & they are such beautiful animals,we love all dogs & animals....its supposed to be a true story,they have a statue in honour of the dog..
Anyone who can still claim animals don't feel emotions after watching this, needs brain scans immediately. It would appear your missing most of your glial structures.
Maybe the only thing different about the human animal and all the others is Ego.
Also, some some of autism test at the very least.
I watch a lot of bear videos on youtube. But I have never watched a mother and sibling cub anguish over the loss of one as this. It was heart wrenching to see how they grieved so.
Painful to go through for the mother. This is sad!
This is so heart breaking to watch . I feel her pain 😭😭😭😭
Diese Bilder beweisen das Tiere wie Menschen leiden.Ich bin betroffen und trauere mit .
This truly hurts ! Mama bear I feel your pain !
God Bless the bears
This is so sad to watch. Having lost a baby, while I was mothering two others, was very difficult. I often wonder if I somehow damaged the others, by my grief. It was so hard to keep vigilant with my other children, while in the throws of that kind of grief. I had no energy and very little patience. Yet, I had gratitude for the salvation that I had other children to give my love to. They got me out of bed every morning, when I didn't "feel" like it!
Same 😔
Oh 😥 my goodness poor mommy & baby bear, still waiting for the baby bear to come back. So heartbreaking. 😢
😥😥
Poor mama and sibling bear. 🥺 😫 😭😭😭😭
Animals can feel, can perceive, can grief and mourn... besides with all the videos about bears roaring and fighting and chasing, I find this onw very, very touching... and with no sound makes it even louder...
She says life goes on I still have you baby..but inside she's thinking how can life go on 🐾so sad and tender
Who else feels it would be wrong to change the channel until she is ready to move on?
I do. What a great job they did at showing what's important and that is her feelings, her keeping vigil, her other cub supporting her and clearly mourning as well. People need to see that we are not the only ones on Earth Who have feelings. We are not the only ones that matter. We need to stop destroying everything on this planet. We need to learn to respect all living things and share this planet with them instead of what us humans are doing because we will eventually destroy our race as well.
@@sherryspies5755 WOW!
You NAILED it sister!
Quite eloquently written!
And I totally concur with you!
Love & Light from Miami Shores🦚✌🏼
Stay safe mate🌎🙏🏼
So sad the lil sibling keeps looking back 🥺
So sad how the little cub keeps looking at his mom, there both grieving and feeling each others pain. 😢
I cried today watching this. 😭😭
Heart Breaking 💔Such beautiful creatures
Just too sad, heartbreaking ...
My ❤ goes out for the bears 🐻 😢
So sad for the mother bear and the little cub
My dog morned the death of my other dog. They were buddies. It broke my heart. I cried too. We both lost a loved one ...our friend.
Your dog that passed is horrid news, but I’d say you lost not just a friend, but a member of your family.
Family is not defined by blood.
I’m so very sorry to hear of what was an enormous blow to your other dog, and family.
I believe he was your family.
Blessings🕊
Love & Light from Miami Shores🦚✌🏼
Stay safe mate🌎🙏🏼
Bears are intelligent. They mourn over there dead just like we do. ,elephants do to,,,mama bears really love there cubs and will fight to the death for them. Its sad to watch her she is lost it takes time to realize its cub is dead. She is mourning in,her own way,,
and she won't leave him ..😭
@@chateaupig826 eventually she will. But only when she knows that it's not. Going to recover ,
love the sympathetic brother ❤
Poor mama bear, she doesn't understand, heartbreaking.
Mother bears seem like the most protective and loving of all animal mothers (including humans)
Thats one good looking mama bear
It’s so sad 😭. Rip little bear!
Animals are more intelligent than what we give them credit for we're are ones that not too smart
TRUE NATURE IS WONDERFUL AND THEN UL HAVE MINDLESS PEOPLE WHO GO OUT AND SHOOT AND TRAP THESE NATURAL AMAZING CREATURES ALL N THE NAME OF SPORT HUMAN ONLY ANIMAL THAT KILLS FOR FUN BUT THEL COME PAY BACK TIME
So are people with Down syndrome or the likes. Whats your point?
I love how everyone always praises the intelligence of every other animal, even the psychopathic ones (looking at you, the common chimp) then bashes human intelligence (we're animals too). We are literally the most intelligent species on the planet by FAR. Our species is out here predicting then proving the existence of black holes and shit, and people are still like, "nah, bears are smarter" all because they can mourn just like us? Just because we're super annoying, and we ARE hella annoying, doesn't mean even the worst of us aren't far more intelligent than the next animal.
@@geeohgeeitsme good point. Some crippled guy with a robot voice in a wheel chair said there are stars in space that we can’t see, therefore, humans are intelligent. Your logic is equal to a shit throwing chimp, and by that I mean “fucking smart”
@@geeohgeeitsme Allen didn't mean bears were "smarter" just that the feelings of grief were evident in creatures of high intelligence and possibly meant that it is we who destroy the natural world with our constant production of plastics and other pollutants
As a mama that lost a little, I understand.
So hard for her to leave.
I wonder how the cub die.
So sad what this poor momma is feeling! :(
Боже мой... какое горе переживает эта медведица, как она ищет своего медвежонка... Плакала весь ролик.Время поможет забыть потерю одного малыша и медведица займётся другим медвежонком. Я очень люблю мишек!
If this doesn't rip your heart out you're hollow...
Ya gotta feel sorry for momma bear, you can tell it breaks her heart one of her Cubs has died and she don’t wanna leave it..
So sweet!
Just as we grieve when we lose our loved ones … God’s creation grieve when they lose they’re babies …
No difference ….
This is why we feel they’re loss when they lose …
They go and we can’t bring them back ….
We all feel for momma bears loss of her cub…
She has to get up in time and WALK away … and care for her living cub …
We do the same thing …
We have to move on in our hurt and in our pain….
Time heals…
Sometimes a long time !
She’s a good loving momma bear !
She’ll stay with her cub as long as she can…
A momma’s love !
I have to go to work and I’m here looking at this in tears .
Loss my wife to colon cancer
3 1/2 years ago …
I have to move and breath every day .
Momma bear has to take care of her living cub , and she will .
Life can be hard .
I'm so sorry you lost your wife. Your right, we have to keep going and keep living on. So sad for this mama bear and cub too.😢 good luck to you and God bless..
S0 sad l am crying 😢
After my father died, my grandfather said that my grandmother, his mother, had returned to grieving for the two miscarriages she had suffered sixty years earlier. The doctor had to dope her up at eighty years old.
Thinking about it, every young woman begins to lose an egg during every cycle.
The mother grizzly returned even after they removed the cubs dead body. That is really something else.
В них души в сто крат больше, чем у нас!
The Park Rangers were wise to do a necropsy on the cub. I don't want our wildlife wiped out from some foreign disease brought in by an invasive species.
I would guess that maybe since the cub was right next to the road, it was more than likely hit by a car .
You can see blood i agree it must have either been hit by car, or another bear killed it
Notice how the bear picked up the scent and followed it. Very intelligent.
Maybe one day we’ll know bye little bear truly amazing love
I watched this when it happened. very sad
Question for you:
How did the baby bear pass away?
@@doriscortes7467 I was reading the comments and people are saying it died from a deadly disease
😢❤️😪❤️😪😭😭
So much LOVE
We must treat all animals well.
So sad hard to watch i can amagin how hard it is to deal with it
My parakeet quit singing/squawking for a week after my cat (that used to stalk the bird) died. I played birds singing on UA-cam for him and he finally started to sing again. Animals are funny creatures!
This breaks my heart.
Wow!! This is so sad and utterly beautiful at the same time ❤️❤️❤️
Животные добрея и умнее людей!!! И сердечнее чем люди!!!
Да это так
It's a hard life being an animal for sure
Oh nooo why ???? Ugh so upsetting
Idk if I can watch anymore of this .. it's making me cry ...
What a lovely creature the bears are! RIP baby, Momma loves ya!
I feel for this sow,😥😥
Mama losses her baby, what could be more tragic.
Oh that’s so sad so sad , Just about makes you tear up, can you imagine what that mother bear is thinking wow,and people think animals have no emotions and they just need to be run over and they’re nothing, they have more common sense and more compassion than a lot of people
My dog was so depressed after our cat died that we had to take him to a therapist...
Actually they did perform a necropsy on the young cub and found it tested positive for CAV-1 (infectious canine hepatitis).
Here's a good NPS summary of the death, as well as another adult bear who died on camera a day or so later.
www.nps.gov/katm/blogs/Recent-Bear-Deaths-at-Brooks-River.htm
Thank you, was really wondering about this.
Read comments from 6 years ago when it happened -- here is link from National Park
home.nps.gov/katm/blogs/recent-bear-deaths-at-brooks-river.htm
So sad. 🤧
They have time to mourned in the wild to sit and ponder life and how they feel about what they’re going to do next and of course at first nothing but it’s shameful how people aren’t allowed to deal with death, it hardly exists anymore in a real sense. Poor moma bear and it’s weird how the other cub isn’t as effected.
very sad story.. poor momma bear
Poor mama. Sweet babies aren't suppose to die. Looks like the sibling is mourning to. I wonder how it died.
My heart goes out to them.
read through the comments from 6 years ago -- died from infectious canine hepatitis
"SAD" 💜💜
She’s had her mouth moving in only words she understand
This is so sad.
This hurt my feelings
pretty sad.....mom seems confused and content at same time, accepting but a hint of hope, they are super smart.......
MY ❤️GOES OUT 2 THIS MAMA 🐻 & HER DIEING CUB.GOOD HEALTH 2 OTHER CUB , TAKE CARE OF UR OTHER SIBLING CUB.
I know it was not possible, however I wish the rangers could have gotten to the cub and tried to save it when the mother and other cub went fishing . Its heartbreaking to think that poor cub lived 2 days before dying there .
I couldn't find the link you talked about below.
How would the cub have contracted this, and would the sow and the living cub be at risk from being around the deceased cub?
Yes. It's contagious!!!
@@kathymccloud7131 I have looked twice and can’t find out what the cub died of…so what was contagious?
Very sad sight 😥
God Bless.
Poor Momma:((((((((((((
This breaks my heart❤️
That is some amazing documentation...I didn't know that this would be the response...when one of our dogs, or cats die...the others might sniff them...then they don't pay any attention...like they know their gone, & that's it...when I've had to put a horse down...the others react in a more emotional response, & run around, & whiny...I don't believe my own mother, ( a narcissist ), would grieve as much! What a good, & wonderful Momma...I just hope she doesn't endanger her surviving cub by lingering...wonder if she favored that cub over the other, or if only people do that? Anyway...R.I.P. LITTLE BEAR, HOPE YOUR FAMILY WILL BE ALRIGHT, & MOMMA WILL TAKE CARE OF YOUR SIBLING...& NOT SUCCUMB TO A BROKEN HEART...VERY SAD AS SHE HAD INVESTED A LOT OF TIME, ENERGY, & DEVOTION TO HER CUBS. EVEN HER SURVIVING CUB TRYING TO COMFORT HER IS VERY MOVING.... HEARTBREAKING ACTUALLY! I COMMEND THE PHOTOGRAPHER...IF YOU MOVED, THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE SHE WOULD HAVE ATTACKED TO PROTECT HER CUBS...NOW WE SEE HOW STRONG HER INSTINCT TO PROTECT IS!! GOOD MOMMA!!...GREAT MOMMA!! GREAT PHOTOGRAPHER!!! National Geographic, or Discovery will pay good money for this!! Maybe better protect it, & take it down, or copyright it!!
It is sad and so many animals mourn their dead, I watched a monkey grieving for her baby. She carried the dead monkey around for day and vocalized her loss. Then the rest of the packed all came to smell the little one and the mother.
Жалко медвеженка совсем молодой!
Он погиб?
@@user-oq6vx9kh5e да к сожалению жаль малыша!
I feel for any anal who loses thir life and for this mother and cub ..god bless the family
There goes the bird feeder again!! Thanks for sharing Patrick, good to see ruby and the cubs doing well. Happy 4th july to you and all your in the US and fingers crossed the end of the Tories here in the UK❤❤❤
Ok can’t watch anymore 😢
I watched the cub die in real time -- it was incredibly heartbreaking
So heartbroken but i guess this is the wild but so sad x
@@leeblock9366 Sir, what happened to both Mama bear and Cub?. Were u able to keep tabs on them all these years? Stay safe
Poor mama
I hope few hunters see this and learn and not to hurt these magnificent animals.
Hunters don’t care they are hunters
✨Sooooo sad✨ 😞 what happened?I agree hunter’s should not hurt the animals 💖