Bear Cubs Chase Off Wolf Pup While Mother Bear Watches On

Mother bears are known to be quite protective of their young but they're not going to waste effort when they don't need too. A video from Kodiak Island, Alaska shows a young wolf pup approaching a female grizzly and her two cubs, and while a wolf sniffing around a baby will cause most mothers to freak out and snap into defense mode, this grizzly has some experience and was content to watch the encounter unfold. The clip was taken by Jennifer Culbertson, who runs the tour agency Kodiak Island Expeditions, and she provided an excellent breakdown in the caption so let's just read what she said: "His eyes are bigger than…. his ability to cart off one of those cubs. This young wolf probably didn’t weigh over 65lbs, yet he had learned from his parents that female bears with more than one cub are easy marks. An adult wolf, weighing in at 120lbs could have picked one of these cubs up and outran the mother. The mother bear knew this and was relatively unconcerned- the larger of the two cubs repeatedly charged the wolf. The rest of the wolf pack never arrived and the young wolf was left with nothing to do but harass the mother and her cubs." Had the rest of the pack arrived I'm sure there would have been a completely different ending to this story, but at the end of the day, the bear cubs got a chance to run off a wolf and the young pup found out just how tough it is to get dinner without getting eaten himself. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9FfnnPxMVV/?igsh=MTdsMHN6NDl0c215eA%3D%3D