A heartwarming story of two bear cubs reuniting after a devasting disaster is tugging at the heartstrings of viewers worldwide. Over 1.2 million people have seen the video in a short time since it was published.
The video starts with a split view of two bear cubs in two separate enclosures. They had been separated for seven months, and this was finally the time for them to be united once more.
The narrator explains how these cubs happen to be separated. Dave and Karen live on a 50-acre farm in the Pacific North West, and they have motion-activated cameras outside their house, and that's when they first saw the bears.
Black bears are native to North America, and they are the smallest bear species on the continent, and they are the most widely spread species. They are omnivores that love forested areas but are sometimes attracted to human settlements.
A mother bear and two bears appeared in Dave and Karen's backyard almost every night. They enjoyed watching the bears play and the mother feeding the babies. But then disaster struck.
The area was ravaged by out-of-control forest fires that decimated the natural environment. After the fires, the two cubs appeared again, on separate occasions without their mother, and both were injured.
They were captured and taken to be treated. Sadly, the cubs had terrible burns on their feet. The video documents the recovery and unification of the bears, and it is enough to soften the toughest of hearts.
