Here’s a little taste of adorable to make your Friday just a little bit easier. This black bear cub was spotted and filmed fighting a red balloon on the side of the road on Vancouver Island, according to the TikTok’s tagged location. There really isn’t much more too it, just that it’s adorable.
Honestly, (not to be a Debbie Downer) maybe this video should act as a warning towards the consequences of letting balloons float into the air. There are many reasons why we should be cautious about the rubber. Most notably, they can be quite the chocking hazard for animals once they pop. They also just add to plastic pollution, and act as a great way to create even more microplastics for both animals and us humans to ingest (microplastics have already been detected in human blood… yay!).
In the case of this video, the balloon seemed pretty harmless, but it can act as a reminder that our actions impact the animal world. What if there was a car flying down the road and the mama bear wound up hit because it turned around to collect the cub? What if the cub was hit because it took too long to cross the road? You wouldn’t be so happy then, would you? Maybe consider not using balloons at your next celebration, or at least cutting back on the number you use.
Why is there a balloon sitting right next to/tied to a drainage on the side of the road? I think we all know that answer. Pennywise wasn’t expected a bear cub when he put the red balloon there, was he? Adorable? Yes. A little unnerving for fans of Stephen King? Absolutely.
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Image Credit: krista15311 via TikTok