mama bear

Visitors at Yellowstone National Park were stunned when a tourist stood in the way of a cinnamon-colored black bear and her cubs as they crossed a road and continued to record them on his phone even as the mom moved closer to put distance between the man and her cubs.

Tony Jackson captured the incident and published it on the Instagram page TouronsOfYellowstone, which criticizes inappropriate conduct in US national parks. According to the ranger, if that had been a grizzly bear, it would have been lethal, Jackson reported.