Learning the Bear Necessities of Life
Clip: Episode 2 | 3m 1sVideo has Closed Captions
A brown bear mother keeps an eye on her cubs as they learn how to climb away from danger.
In the forests of Finland during early spring, a mother brown bear has emerged from hibernation with her cubs. She starts to teach them some important life lessons, such as how to climb trees away from danger. Climbing up the towering pine trees seems to be easy enough, but it is harder to get back down.
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Learning the Bear Necessities of Life
Clip: Episode 2 | 3m 1sVideo has Closed Captions
In the forests of Finland during early spring, a mother brown bear has emerged from hibernation with her cubs. She starts to teach them some important life lessons, such as how to climb trees away from danger. Climbing up the towering pine trees seems to be easy enough, but it is harder to get back down.
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After the long winter, this female brown bear ...finally emerges from hibernation.
With her two young cubs, she's amongst 5,000 bears left in Scandinavia.
Their broad diet gives them an important role as forest gardeners spreading seeds and this mom will teach her cubs over 70 different edible plants, ...but they're easily distracted ...and always keen to play.
Mom knows there's one lesson that can't wait.
These towering pine trees could save their lives ...but only if they can climb.
They will be their escape route out of danger.
Going up looks easy, but it's harder coming down.
Mom encourages them from below...
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