Attentive golden eyes stare into the forest, a stoic figure indispensably focused. Her immense paws daintily lift off the ground, she moves stealthily. Then she pounces with her claws dispersed. She chases the animal across the forest, she tries once more! Soon she tastes the food she is longing for.
The snow is turning her gray coat white as she runs with her prize meal to her mate. Now she is in search of a remote birthing den for she is going to have cubs. She has had her pups in a tree that has its roots half way out of the ground making a nice cozy cave for the family. The cubs unavailing senses cause her to perpetually guide them around the den and territory. She let out a clamorous howl to her mate calling him to help handle her new litter. Now they can explore outside the den area but not for long. The time has come to move from the den area for bears and other predators will come to this location constantly for a meal.
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| den photo by:Tom Remington |
But it's too late, a bear has come to slaughter her litter. She franticly grabs one of her pups and fleas to a nearby rocky area and places it down gently, off in the distance she sees her mate having a furious battle and runs swiftly back to get another pup. She does so until all her pups are far from the vicious bear who is now raiding her meat storage. She and her faithful mate both with two cubs sprint towards the river, it's rushing and very deep it had been frozen when she had reached this area in the winter and the only way to get all four pups across the raging river alive is to hope. Her mate goes first he strides into the deep river then he strains his neck up trying to keep the two pups he has at the moment alive. Suddenly, he is swept under the thick sheet of ice cold water! She urges forward in fear, then he bobs back up. She is excited to see him alive but there's one thing he is missing...
TO BE CONTINUED...
Can you guess the animal?
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