In early June 2022, in the autonomous community of Castile and León, Spain, a female brown bear is loitering with her two cubs on a mountainside.
Suddenly, a huge male brown bear, almost twice the size of the female, ran under the rock, and it ran in the direction of the female bear with bad intentions.
From May to July every year, it is the estrus period of European brown bears.
But males are in heat; Females who have just given birth to their cubs do not come into heat, and they usually have to care for their children for more than two years before they are likely to find a new love.
Females take great care of their cubs, because they have to be 180 to 270 days pregnant to give birth to their cubs and have to raise them alone, so females always watch over their children for fear of falling or being hurt by other predators.
But male bears are different, they have a fixed period of estrus every year. During this period, they will be animalistic, desperately looking for mating partners, and if they encounter a mother bear with cubs, they will mercilessly kill the cub, forcing the mother bear to enter estrus again in about a week.
In such a situation, the mother bear, out of the instinct of loving her son, will always have a fierce battle with the incoming male bear to protect her hard-won child.
At this time, in the Spanish wilderness, because of this situation, a big war between male and female brown bears was about to take place.
And a photographer happened to encounter all this, and he used the camera to fully record this thrilling fight scene at a good angle.
I saw that in the picture, the male brown bear quickly climbed up the rock and went straight to the cub behind the mother bear. Seeing this, the mother bear hurriedly put on a posture to block the male bear's way, but where the male bear was willing to give up, it savagely wanted to pass from the side to kill the cub.
In danger, the female bear, although weak, bravely took the lead and bit into the left side of the male bear's neck.
Unexpectedly, the strong male bear did not think at all, it easily got rid of the attack of the female bear, reflexively bit the upper neck of the female bear, and completely pressed the female bear's head with the advantage of size, and then kept tearing the upper neck of the female bear left and right.
The pain-eating female bear struggled desperately, but because the physical strength of the two was not at all on the same scale, the female bear could not get rid of the control and tearing of the male bear at all, and the right hind foot could only support the rock wall in embarrassment to counter the strong strength of the male bear.
From the photographer's point of view, the male bear is very unarmed and cruel with the picture of bullying the small; And the weak female bear is so pitiful and helpless.
Imagine that the male bear kills just for his own selfish desires; And the female bear is risking her life to protect her beloved child, what an injustice and resistance! But that's nature.
The asymmetrical fight between the female bear and the male bear continues, and the female bear does her best not to give up, because she knows that if she gives up at this moment, it will directly mean the end of the two children behind her, so she has no choice to fight to the death.
In the picture, the two poor children of the female bear are frightened by the sudden tearing. They lay under the rocks, trembling and peeking at the battle above, only to see their mother being ruthlessly ravaged, but there was nothing they could do.
However, the tearful thing is that the mother of the female bear who was bitten to death by the male bear did not forget the child because of the pain, she knew that she was almost invincible, and at the moment of life and death, she issued a hiss that only the child could understand, and came to shout: Children run away!
Hearing his mother's critical call, a bear cub lying on his stomach fled over a rock; But the other crawled motionless in the crevice, perhaps frightened or reluctant to leave his mother.
Finally, the battle between male and female brown bears reached a miserable point! The weak female bear can almost be pinched by the male bear, only to see the male bear holding the female bear's neck skin, suddenly throwing her to the cliff wall, seeing that the female bear is about to fall, the male bear carried her back with a strong bite.
At this time, the female bear has become a toy that the male bear can destroy at will, and the pleasure of winning makes the male bear even more invincible, he arbitrarily drags the paralyzed female bear off the rock, and then throws a brutal bite at the defenseless female bear, and then raises the bear's head high in the posture of a victor, indicating that it has completely conquered the female bear and can kill her cubs at will.
However, things are unpredictable! An unexpected twist has begun!
The female bear, who only has a weak strength, suddenly turned over and bit out at the male bear, although such resistance is pale and weak, but the mother female bear may have a belief in her heart, that is, even if there is only the slightest strength, she must do her best to protect her child.
Who expected that after seeing the sudden resistance of the female bear, the male bear was instantly embarrassed and angry, and it desperately bit out towards the female bear, with arrogant movements, and the female bear could only resist desperately.
In the chaos, the female bear suddenly slides to the vertical face of the cliff wall, and the scene becomes extremely dangerous.
But at this time, the male bear has lost his mind, and he only cares about tearing and biting the female bear indiscriminately, eager to win back the sense of conquest just now.
At this moment, the two brown bears biting together suddenly lost their balance on the edge of the cliff, the female bear fell first, the male bear was dragged down by the dragging force of the female bear, and the two bears both fell from the cliff more than 100 meters high.
It is said that falling from such a high cliff will not escape doom. But something bizarre happened! The female bear fell sideways on a piece of grass and did not roll; The bear, on the other hand, landed his head on the ground first, hit the rubble, then bounced up and rolled down nearly 200 meters before braking. On the way 200 meters, it was hit by rocks many times, resulting in the male bear being seriously injured, directly incontinent, and when rescuers arrived, it was already seriously injured and died.
The female bear immediately sat up after falling to the ground, and it didn't take long for her to start crawling, seemingly fine.
To the delight of the rescuers, the female bear rushed to the mountain after recovering slightly. According to the photographer, the two cubs have climbed to the top of the mountain, and the female bear is eager to find her lost child, which shows that the motherhood of the animals is also great.
Given that the mother bear fell from a height, the local animal rescue organization later sent personnel to search for the female bear. Two days later, they finally found the female bear family, found that the mother bear and the two cubs were as good as ever, and the rescuers put some fruits and food not far away and left in peace.
