Photographer captures first-ever sow grizzly with five cubs in Yellowstone

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[@smujer1]

She will be one busy Mama!

[@eandsm4620]

First the white baby bison in June, now this. WOW!!!

[@Quacky10]

Wow indeed!

[@letthedeedshaw7541]

Not true... 30 years ago one was born...

[@JohnnyAngel8]

@@letthedeedshaw7541 I think you misread the post. Not the first white baby bison in Yellowstone NP ... but the first surprise this season. Technically, it should have included a comma: "First, the white baby bison in June, now this."

[@The_DC_Kid]

It's like we're living in a Disney Cartoon!

[@sjTHEfirst]

Now that we know, let them be in peace.

[@pedalingprospector2007]

Where's that lady who stuck her hand in one of the steaming pools? Someone hold her back.

[@spiritcreek9813]

Good luck with that! Hate to be a Yellowstone Ranger, they must pull their hair out every day.

[@createwithkas]

THIS 🙌

[@dd4850]

We’ve known there are bears in Yellowstone since the 90s wtf are yall talking about

[@JayArr]

@@pedalingprospector2007 I would have pushed her in

[@eligebrown8998]

That's awsome. That poor momma has her work cut for her.

[@DwightStJohn-t7y]

sometimes grizzly eat grass: a LOT of grass. if she's a good mom, all have a chance.

[@esidhe]

@@DwightStJohn-t7y The biggest threat tends to be other bears.

[@susancoddington6393]

Awesome I hope they all grow up healthy

[@Subie-Driver]

This amazing…what will be more amazing is if the all survive their first year.

[@hippiehillape]

Go deeper Mama. Run from humans.

[@trueloveingod2691]

That’s a beautiful sight. But also one you wouldn’t want to be too close to, Mama and her cubs. After all, that is their home.

[@angelwings7930]

After all, she’d tear you to bits 😂

[@jeanataylor6864]

Please dont allow tourist to disturb these beautiful animals that are in their natural environment!🙏🏻 Keep momma and her cubs safe.❤️

[@Ilostmyairpod]

No one allows it but dumbasses are going to be dumbasses we can’t baby sit everyone.

[@alicemcpherson7961]

Amazing capture!!! Good job!

[@530MAIDU]

Dear Lord …please protect the momma and cubs 🐻🤍🧸🙏🏽

[@lolacookie453]

🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏

[@sarahporter9541]

What an Awsome sighting!!! And to be able to.catch the moment! Wow.

[@amberandrews6842]

Five cubs!!! Very unusual, very cool!!

[@TheMountainbobcat]

five cubs this year, 25 cubs next year, 125 the next year, just imagine.

[@blobbertmcblob4888]

@@TheMountainbobcat What are you even talking about?

[@juliebradley6961]

Amazing, thank you! 💚

[@kathiebauer5165]

I pray they all stay safe & public doesn’t try to track them. Mom will have her paws full keeping them safe.

[@TheTelblackwell]

Rumour has it, that's the resident Yellowstone Bearby sitter.

[@lindatohara6438]

The place is magical I can’t wait to go back.

[@The_DC_Kid]

Looks real good FROM THE ROAD.

[@davidsuch8942]

​@@The_DC_Kidyes, please stay on the road.

[@CDKV]

I’ve never been because I have a pretty good fear of wildlife. I’ve always wanted to see Yellowstone though. Is it relatively safe if you’re not dirt stupid? What advice would you give someone who has never been?

[@davidsuch8942]

@@CDKV lmao. You have a far better chance of getting into a car wreck on the way there than anything happening while there. I would tell anyone to get away from the roads via foot travel, so you'd have to just get over your fear.

[@davidsuch8942]

@@CDKV My second bit of advice is to drive US 212 through the beartooths. Maybe the best road in the US.

[@time4paws]

Beautiful.❤

[@KennySmith_AKA_JerseyKid]

That’s very rare for a sow to have 5 cubs. I know with black bears 3 cubs in a cycle is rare. Speaking of rarities I had the privilege of seeing not just one albino deer but an entire family of deer that were all white. The only one who wasn’t white was a little button buck running to keep up with his family. I had been on a cruise ship for several months, working on board in the galley as a chef and was home on vacation. My friend a landscaper had several rental properties he tended to for a realtor. I was home for two weeks and he asked if I could help him with his work. He told me several weeks before about the albino deer and I’m grateful God blessed me with the opportunity also

[@dahnoied6893]

Keep in mind it is possible that she adopted a couple of those. Either way, impressive if she can keep them alive and well.

[@yougonnaeatthat9889]

The last one looked 3-4 times bigger and is probably one of last year's cubs.

[@randygreen007]

My thoughts exactly.

[@kimberlygarrish205]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@lukelee3]

Possible but they attack other cubs that are not theirs.

[@Mt-ue9qz]

Keep in mind that nature knows before we do that change brings threat. I hope all of them make it thru along with us all.

[@camp44mag]

What a wonderful thing for our world, along with restoration of grey wolves and other species in Yellowstone, surrounding areas, and other areas. However, I disagree with Andrea Lutz, the reporter, in her hopes that this Grizzly becomes "the next big draw" to Yellowstone.

[@kimmiesoo]

The wolf situation isn't as glowing as that. The 3 states that Yellowstone exists in would like nothing more than to hunt wolves to extinction. State legislatures in MT, WY & ID have passed horrific laws that allow for it, and will continue on that trend unless something changes from the federal level for wolf management. These beautiful beings need help.

[@sarachan8932]

Thank you for keeping a distance! Let the wild animals live a quiet life!

[@erikpeterson25]

👍...congrats to mom

[@Trace9598]

Beautiful bear family, hope they all stay safe and healthy.

[@frisk151]

Amazing... Hope they make it until next year. Wonder if any of those cubs were "adopted"?

[@davemanone3661]

Please leave her alone, she has enough to do.

[@stephanieyee9784]

This is fantastic news. I hope all six members of this family are safe and healthy and live long happy bear lives.

[@Clarice-rp7mh]

It will be a miracle if all 5 survive. Momma will be working so hard to defend her babies from the grizzly boars.

[@douglaspinsak1246]

I’m more impressed by that giant “A” made out of logs.

[@captainbpj8656]

No way all 5 survive. She was spotted yesterday with only 4. I doubt the 4 will all survive.

[@BessieMann]

Oh wow thanks for sharing this. Momma bear has her work cut out for herself. Like grizzly 399 had four cubs

[@HomeEF]

So beautiful 😍 🐻

[@toneenorman2135]

I had no idea they could have litters!

[@RodHerlache]

Very rare. Thanks for sending.

[@charlesebyjr2925]

Awesome photo 😂

[@tammytownsend5957]

Amazing and beautiful

[@markrumfola9833]

Fantastic Video Bigtime ❤

[@CbrF4i600cc]

Good thing they had it verified, because cameras sometimes lie

[@DwightStJohn-t7y]

Yellowstone has good game: large Elk, bison calves, and............foxes, marmets, ground squirrels, coyotes........and fat tourists. !!

[@kylewood8327]

I hope people just leave her alone and don’t start tracking her to get a peak.

[@deborahlarson2650]

Awesome ☺ Thank you.

[@KittyKeypurr]

Holy crap. FIVE??? Phew!

[@novak.olen66]

They’ve been seeing them there for a century. People have gone to jail for shooting them in the park.

[@Lastfirst333]

So weird. Seems like bears everywhere are having more and more cubs. Interesting. Like we need more grizzlies.

[@marylougreen9136]

Awesome ❤❤❤

[@OrbAttraction]

How incredible 🤩

[@sheilasantiago3715]

Can I pet that dawg? Can I pet that dawg? Lol

[@CDKV]

Who has been to Yellowstone? I would really like to see it but I’m a bit afraid of wildlife. Is it relatively safe if you’re not dirt stupid?

[@elsiesmith1771]

Common sense is your friend. When the signs warn about getting close or harassing wildlife, there's a reason for it. Many thousands of folks visit Yellowstone each summer without incident.

[@debbralehrman5957]

Well that's Awesome!!!!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@maryb1686]

wait! wasn't bear 399 a Yellowstone sow? She had 5 cubs a few years back

[@JoJo-vz5uy]

Protect all 🐻🐻 and animals

[@nyslmt]

That is a litter!!

[@LeahGratiot]

YAY! ❤❤❤❤❤

[@tkc7188]

Stan mill’s caught them on camera about a month ago on his yt channel

[@TrangNguyen-vc3yk]

God bless the bears. It’s their habitat, their world too. We have been taking over too much. We need to retrieve and let them be.

[@markrumfola9833]

Awesome Video Bigtime ❤

[@damamae950]

Awesome!

[@PTX0432]

Now we need them jaguars in Arizona to populate

[@juanbait9670]

Well those videos of people trying to pet wild animals is going to get more entertaining. 😂

[@brianwaldo2642]

Better her catching mama grizzly, than mama grizzly catching her.

[@vaamtxusxyooj2982]

Three of them adopted from different moms.

[@ronl8495]

Awesome! 😎

[@jamesdesormeaux1803]

Momma bear's have been known to adopted as many as 3 cubes !

[@Septimus-037]

Is it possible that she’s related to 399?

[@vickilindberg6336]

5! Too many. Poor mama.

[@Memore18]

Can it be that maybe they are not all hers? Maybe she adopted some of them….. if like the cubs were lost or the mom was not to be found and she took couple of them as her own?

[@crawwwfishh3284]

Don’t mess with her babies.

[@LoriL010]

I'm sure she's not the first one to have 5 cubs...

[@kathyverrelli5170]

Looks like they are different sizes, so different ages possibly? Do mother bears take on cubs whose mother may have died? How do you know they are all her cubs?

[@rowenamoynihan4753]

Multiple births often result in stronger/bigger cubs and weaker/smaller cubs.

[@alansach8437]

Kathy: Yes, that has been known to happen. Even when two sows run into one another it isn't unheard of that a cub get confused and leave with the wrong mom. Since they already have cubs of their own they will care for the adopted cub as if it were theirs. Whether or not they even notice they have an extra mouth to feed is unknown.

[@kathyverrelli5170]

@@alansach8437 Thanks for the detailed explanation.

[@jjohnson5014]

How many teats does a sow have?

[@unyieldingcreek1]

Now hide mama bear!!! Run from the humans.

[@ncnovembergrl2009]

Too many people. Not enough bears. Long live bears! 🐻

[@chancegivens9390]

Agreed!!

[@marcusorillius6971]

Why “first ever”?

[@deeprollingriver52]

I’m not going anywhere NEAR Yellowstone. Not with a momma bear with 5 cubs wondering around.

[@viewfromthehighchair9391]

I hope humans leave them alone as wonderful as it might be to witness nature. Animals need room to live too.

[@martinyuhas929]

The power of bear AI

[@Xavier-uknonada]

Signs petitions to save wildlife. Donate cash! We owe this to all wildlife moms!

[@marybaez640]

❤❤❤❤

[@kellycuckoo3143]

She needs a new camera.🎥

[@DoggyDoula]

This is a sign that the bear has a good gene pool,loads of food and seemingly a strong urge to avoid people! Stay safe momma and babies. Hopefully we see you all from afar again

[@ale7564]

5 Cubs and Counting. Someone call TLC, that mom needs a show!

[@arthurbrumagem3844]

Unfortunately not all those cubs are likely going to get to adulthood

[@ALLforROME]

🐻👈💯

[@AlbinaS6950]

Humans vecome more and more invasive with their devices

[@scrawnieawnie]

Its completely fuzzy.

[@Subie-Driver]

The sad thing is that not all five will like survive their first year…two maybe…

[@desertodavid]

It's simply amazing what passes for news these days as the US Burns to the ground.

[@edhall9656]

now she 5× as mean......

[@BigB932]

Close ups? Can you get closer? I'm sure you would awesome videos.

[@itsdtxjd]

Probably not all her cubs

[@troyrussell177]

I wonder if she adopted someone else’s cubs🤷 like she had three of her own and picked up two orphaned cubs around the same age as hers.

[@missingutah]

Maybe you shouldn't have said where they were... could be dangerous for them

[@opulentlilt455]

Nature all around is super fertile right now.

[@LorettaGallagher-gv1zx]

How do they know she had them all maybe too on another's cubs.

[@John-uo1qf]

Support Grizzly birth control!

[@crescentjones5612]

We had a mom bear with 4 cubs but she adopted a couple from another bear we figured

[@Jean-ix7qk]

I love how they made their way over the logs shaped as a cross.😇

[@sooz9433]

Everybody's going for bigger Families lately...☺️

[@lynnwilson2615]

No surprise. Multiple births are now common and not just bears.