A Surveillance Camera Captured A Bear Adopting A Family Of Raccoons.
A nature researcher had set up a camera deep in the forest, waiting for deer or coyotes. Instead, the footage revealed a scene none of the team had ever seen: the same bear appearing night after night with a small group of raccoons, all resting in the same spot. In later shots, the bear disappears into the darkness and returns with food, which he drops before settling down again. The raccoons stay close, never swerving, as if they know they are safe!
Biologists are still debating what's happening. Is it simply free shelter for the raccoons, or is it a lonely bear who doesn't want to sleep alone and has adopted creatures not of his own species? Online, the debate continues, with people nicknamed him "Papa Bear."