“A mama bear known as ‘Brett’ gave her cubs a ride across the river in Alaska’s iconic Katmai National Park and Preserve.

The time lapse footage is the result of almost a decade of work monitoring the vulnerable predators' maternal behavior.

In a circulating TikTok video on the incident, cones surround the emotional sight in which a yearling cub sits over its laid out mother among parked cars. Occasionally the young bear appeared to ...

The video shows the bear crawling out of a hole she tore into the side of the home to munch on some snow before she “went back inside to her helpless little two-pound cub,” where she ...