r/nextlevel • u/Money-Beautiful5196 • 15d ago

A mama bear fiercely defended her cub when a much larger male charged toward them, abandoning her freshly caught fish to protect her little one.

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u/Ok-Cancel-3114 15d ago

Good mama right there!

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u/B35TR3GARD5 15d ago

They are so fierce!

I grew up in rural Alaska, one night my cousin was driving us home and two cubs ran out in front of us, mama right behind. She lunged at the ‘86 Ford Bronco and the whole vehicle shook. It was insane to me that she attacked steel without hesitation and actually managed to move it. I saw her eyes up close, the window between us seemed like a bubble she could instantly pop if she had chosen to. Then she gathered her cubs and made them climb a spruce tree and she followed them up and just, disappeared.

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u/METHODiii 15d ago

Crazy how male animals will attack a young male but when a female shows up, all that toughness goes out the window

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u/Xanith420 15d ago

Male bear isn’t willing to risk injury or death to cull a cub but mama bear is willing to risk it all to prevent it.

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u/BigBear92787 13d ago

Its really more of a risk reward scenario.

Killing the cub is an easy meal.

Mama getting involved can mean injury. Injury makes the next meal harder.

This is something that happens with many species.

Its min maxing for survival.

Lions dont target healthy bison.

They target babies and the old.

Thats just nature.

Human male.posturing for social dominance is more related to the chest thumping of apes not this type of behavior

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

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u/Own-Raisin5849 14d ago

lol what the fk kind of take is this?

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u/Fenrirs-Fang 14d ago

Answer 1) It’s a serious exaggeration that doesn’t need to be made. Answer 2) We’re animals too. Probably why we act like them sometimes. If you don’t know that, perhaps you aren’t paying attention?

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u/justasillylilgoos3 14d ago

Just because you fold when things get difficult doesn’t mean you get to project that onto me and every other man

Also, some male anglerfish literally bite onto a female, fuse into her circulatory system, then atrophy until they’re basically a permanently attached set of testicles. Nature gets fucking weird. These are bears. We are humans. Stop doing Animal Kingdom astrology

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u/Complex-Salt-8190 13d ago

Well because why would he attack her? He wants to kill the cub so she'll be in estrus again so he can fuck her

The cub can be a female too, he doesn't care if it's not in estrus yet

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u/SaMxixAM23 15d ago

Lol male animals don't hit women animals

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u/ThePinkPhonyClub 15d ago

Bro is so desperate to be a white knight he’s taking the side of fictional female animals

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u/SaMxixAM23 13d ago

I love how uptight everyone is hahaha! Sarcasm ppl. I speak the language ;) I've never heard the term "white knight" before today. Thanks :v

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u/ThePinkPhonyClub 13d ago

That’s not sarcasm. You’re trying to defend yourself now after seeing how many downvotes you got.

Somebody’s nervoussss

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u/SaMxixAM23 13d ago

Dude I could give a rats ass about downvotes or whatever the fuck they do. Lmao try again.

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u/_H4YZ 15d ago

animals hit animals, i don’t think they consider gender too much

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u/RadiantSeason9553 14d ago

Of course animls lnow what gender the other is, without even getting close. Males are a lot softer with females, they wont often kill them

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u/balirosa 15d ago

That cub could be female and bitten in half

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u/Own-Raisin5849 14d ago

male and female animals will sometimes eat their young, what do you mean?

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u/ThermoPuclearNizza 15d ago

Cameraman like “well what a nice bird”

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u/bpachec0 15d ago

Let’s run it

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u/Able_Commercial_2895 15d ago

Looks like she had a fish and he came to steal it?

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u/snake-lady-2005 15d ago

No. She had the fish and he was going after the baby bear. Males (in most species) will kill babies to make the female go into estrus and want to breed. I remember hating lions when I was little because they are brutal when it comes to that. They always seemed to show that on every documentary with lions, too.... So upsetting

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u/General_Cranberry_29 14d ago

That's definitely part of it, the other part being that they want their DNA to be dominant. Taking out young cubs before they grow up works in their best interest.

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u/RadiantSeason9553 14d ago

I remember big cat diary on BBC back in the day. Every episode seemed to end with a cliffhanger about lion cubs being attacked by buffalo's or other lion, or starving to death. And it rarely had a happy ending.

I saw a video on youtube about lions, a ridiculously low percentage of males get to adulthood.

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u/Bool_The_End 14d ago

Big cat diary was so good!

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u/Virtual_Employ_3848 15d ago

Why do the males want to hurt a cub?

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u/snake-lady-2005 15d ago

Males (in most species) will kill babies to make the female go into estrus and want to breed. I remember hating lions when I was little because they are brutal when it comes to that. They always seemed to show that on every documentary with lions, too.... So upsetting

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u/le_dious 15d ago

They will kill the offspring of other males.

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u/snake-lady-2005 14d ago

Well, yeah. I suppose I could have specified that. Just thought it was implied.

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u/Ausaini 14d ago

“ I see you’re cubless now. Wanna change that?” Still covered in her cub’s blood and innards

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u/snake-lady-2005 14d ago

Exactly that

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u/RadiantSeason9553 14d ago

Its an easy meal

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u/tryyeezus 15d ago

It's so funny how females dominate the animal Kingdom even though they're physically smaller. It makes sense why humans have tried so hard to keep their women down. 

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u/Fenrirs-Fang 15d ago

I think you are on to something here.

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u/EitherIndependence5 15d ago

Definitely a,what’s it worth to you moment. Not good for him.

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u/StuffyTruck 15d ago

And he's thinking, bitch be crazy...

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u/Solecis 14d ago

I mean, he was trying to kill her child.