Bear hit by car lying in parking lot with cub stirs emotions
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife responded to a report that a momma bear had apparently been hit by a car and was found with its cub lying in an apartment parking lot in Truckee.
An online video shows the sow lying in the parking lot of the Sawmill Heights Apartments near Northstar Ski Resort. It is a heart-breaking scene as the cub grabs momma’s face and nips at her ears to get her to stir.
The incident occurred Monday around 6:30 a.m., which is when The Bear League of Tahoe was called, according to the Tahoe Daily Tribune.
The area of the parking lot was coned off to give the bears space as officials assessed the situation.
A snowboarding TikTok user recorded footage of the heart-wrenching scene, saying “someone ran over a bear in our parking lot” and “this is the saddest thing I’ve seen in my life.”
The video stirred plenty of emotions. A sample of the comments on the post:
“This actually made me tear up.”
“This broke my heart.”
“This is so horrible and sad.”
“It’s like that part in Lion King.”
“Most heart-wrenching thing I’ve ever seen. Shame to who ever did this.”
“My heart is just breaking.”
“I’m crying.”
A cub attempts to stir its mother, who apparently was hit by a car in a parking lot.
The Bear League told the Tribune that in the seven hours of observing the momma bear, it showed signs consistent with a concussion or other head trauma.
A wildlife veterinarian and wildlife biologist experts advised the CDFW to tag the bears and release them back into the wilderness.
So the agency darted the bears and proceeded to relocate them.
The TikTok user wrote that the CDFW placed a camera where the bears were relocated and monitored the sow overnight. Officials returned the next morning and discovered that the sow was ambulatory and mobile, this according to the Supervisor of Wildlife Management Units.
The CDFW told the Tribune it would continue to monitor the bears to determine if further intervention is necessary.
Photos courtesy of TikTok user Snowboard Jesus.
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