Unconcerned for their own safety, two fishermen came to the rescue of two drowning brown bear cubs that were left behind by their mother.
The cubs had attempted to cross Lake Vygozero in the Republic of Karelia in the northwestern part of Russia.
“They had swum [across the lake] with their mother, but she overestimated her strength and swam away,” Ruslan Lukanin told the Daily Mail.
“The cubs began to sink. We picked them up and dragged them to the island to which their mother had swum.
“It was dangerous, of course.
But they are living creatures.
We couldn’t just look the other way.”
Lukanin shared a video of part of the rescue, which was posted by the Daily Mail:
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