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Adorable bear cub struggles to climb over a big bear fence

Help, mama.
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Brian Koerber
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A homeowner in Altadena, California, captured an adorable moment between a mother bear and her young cub over the weekend.

After the mother bear hopped over the homeowners fence, she returned to lend a helping paw to her cub, which was too small to scale the fence itself.

Help me Mama! Adorable bear cub is left stranded in a backyard in Altadena, CA. Isaac Garcia posted this video of Mama bear trying to help her little cub...but not having much luck. It took a while, but the cub eventually grabbed one of the vines and got back over the fence. Smarter than the average bear. WINK News

Posted by Lois Thome WINK News on Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Despite her best efforts, the mama was unable to pull her cub over the fence, but the homeowner told ABC 7 that it eventually was able to get over the wall by climbing a vine.

Regardless, its attempts to scale the wall were so adorable that we just so glad to see them.

Topics Animals

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Brian was the Culture Editor and has been working at Mashable on the web culture desk since 2014.

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