Life in the Arctic is brutal. Food isn't always readily available, so the fight for food can turn ugly pretty quick. An encounter between a male polar bear and a mother with her cub turns ugly pretty quick. After taking off with her cub after they got too close to the male, it doesn't take long ...

Filming wildlife comes with certain risks, especially when bears with cubs are involved. Gordon Buchanan and his film crew were out filming families of polar bears for his new series The Bear Family and Me in which he's attempting to observe a family of polar bears over the course of a year. ...

This shows just how fast an encounter with a grizzly can turn into an incredibly dangerous situation. Casey Anderson, a filmmaker, was out recording when a momma grizzly with a cub decided he had gotten too close. She starts sprinting toward him as he gets his can of bear spray ready — the fence ...

Canadians are widely considered to be some of the most polite people you'll ever meet. Apparently, that also applies to black bears in Canada. After discovering a momma bear and her two cubs in his yard while trying to leave for work, a Canadian man does all he can do — he asks them to leave. ...

We're not sure if this black bear was trying to give this golfer some putting tips or just get a quick hug, but you never know what to expect on the golf course. Let's just hope there wasn't a momma bear around!

Extremely high temperatures during the summer months at India's Tadoba National Park means water becomes even more scarce. This leads to animals congregating around waterholes in order to have enough water to survive. Predator and prey can be found at these spots at any given time. Naturally, ...

A lion cub at the National Zoo in Washington, DC, learned it had to be ready for anything after it got knocked into the water by its mom. Right in the middle of drinking, the lioness walks up behind him and his sibling while they were drinking and started grooming them. The other cub apparently ...

Trust jumping doesn't always work out for the jumper, but it looks like this adorable black panther cub and its faithful catcher have the whole thing down to a science. Each time the cub is caught and set back down it gets visibly more excited and immediately jumps again. However much this ...

If you thought bears only climbed trees, then this mama bear and her cub are about to prove you wrong. These endangered Mexican Black Bears were spotted climbing up a wall at Santa Elena Canyon. The momma bear makes the climb incredibly fast while the baby bear lags behind a bit, but it does ...

For those who don't understand big cat behavior - ourselves included - these pictures of a lioness nursing a baby leopard may just seem cute, but not that big of a deal otherwise. However, these recent photos show something that hasn't been seen or photographed before in the wild. When Luke ...

Despite facing criticism and the potential to have been fined up to $6,000 and face a year in jail, photographer Corey Hancock doesn't regret his choice to save an abandoned bear cub that was barely alive when he found it while hiking in Oregon. He even says he would do it again, stating, "I didn't ...

There is a lot of preparation that goes on before heading out for trail riding - how to react to getting blindsided by a bear and flying off your bike probably isn't one of them. Davis Souza found out exactly how that scenario plays out when he runs into a bear as it runs across the trail in front ...

Why did the bear cross the road? No one knows why, but we do know she brought along her two adorable cubs. A mama bear blocked four lanes of traffic so she and her cubs could cross the road  in Anchorage, Alaska this past Sunday. Karena Hostetler filmed the furry family when she came across them ...

You always remember your first big trip with your family and these lion cubs don't look like they'll be forgetting this day anytime soon.