A heartwarming scene of a mama bear tenderly playing with her cub was captured at Cades Cove, Tennessee, in the spring of 2015.
Filmer Jon Phillips said the pair appeared to enjoy their time together.
“[They] would wrestle around on the forest floor,” he said. “Then the cub would run off for a second and then come back and bounce on mom and swat at her again while having a great old time in the back woods.” Credit: Jon Phillips via Storyful