Motherly devotion is not at all exclusive to human beings, as a video of a polar bear and her baby circulating on Facebook clearly shows.

A baby polar bear is clumsily rolling around and playing on the edge of a fake shore, beside a fake pond in his zoo enclosure, when he suddenly slips. The heart-stopping moment occurs just as his mother's back is turned, and she's out of the frame.

But the cub's mother quickly notices the danger, and rushes to the rescue. But she doesn't just push her cub up onto the shore — she spots her baby while he learns how to pull himself up.


As the baby polar bear learned to pull himself up out of danger, other viewers of the video considered the condition of the polar bear family's life in general. "How about rescue them out of the zoo," a commenter succinctly wrote.