Katmai National Park: brown bear mother grieving the passing of her cub

On October 23rd, 2015 -- captured on the live webcams -- a Katmai National Park spring brown bear cup died after collapsing on October 21st from unknown causes. The mother and surviving bear cub stayed with the cub off and on for the next two days while the fatally ill cub labored with its malady and eventually succumbed the evening of October 23rd. This video begins the morning of October 24th where the mother and living cub keep vigil even while the mother tries still to get a response from the deceased cub. The video continues as the mother and cub eventually leave to go fishing, and in the interim three National Park Service bear techs arrive by boat to retrieve the cub so that they can have a necropsy performed on the animal to understand what caused its demise. After the cub is removed, the mother and cub return a while later and discover the body gone, but stay in the area for quite awhile and then finally trace the dead cub’s scent to the exact location where the rangers loaded the