Cute Cub Looks Like a Teddy Bear Stuck up a Tree - The Bear Family and Me - BBC Two

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Tiny cub Hope dangles from a tree like a teddy bear. After just a couple of months out of the den black bear cubs must learn to climb trees to escape danger. Here, Hope is still with her mother Lily, but cubs born to first time mothers are sometimes abandoned and don't get enough food to survive hibernation.

This series follows wildlife cameraman, Gordon Buchanan, as he spends a year with a family of wild Black Bears. Gordon arrives in the forests of Minnesota in spring just as the bears are coming out of their dens. Before he can start filming, he faces a major challenge - to earn the bears' trust. He must overcome his fear, Black Bears have a dangerous reputation and attack more people than any other bear in the world. But once he meets, 'Lily', an easy-going young mother bear and her cub, 'Hope', Gordon is smitten. What unfolds is pure drama. Could this change the way we think about bears?

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