A close encounter between a polar bear cub and a seal is the cutest thing you’ll see today

Poke Staff. Updated November 20th, 2022

Back in 2018, the BBC aired an amazing natural history programme about a mother polar bear and her two cubs, struggling to survive in the vanishing tundra of Svalbard.

Here’s one small clip from Snow Bears, of a funny encounter between a cub and a seal.

It came to everybody’s attention again after being tweeted by the wonderful @fasc1nate Twitter account.

A seal startles a baby polar bear. pic.twitter.com/ox6MJ4PC0b

— Fascinating (@fasc1nate) November 12, 2022

It provided some welcome levity, picking up comments like these.

I react in a very similar way when I’m startled https://t.co/yqR54jXEUR

— CanSprout (@SproutCan) November 13, 2022

We've all been there https://t.co/nfVEoTAmiO

— Rhys Knott (@buck_mitchell) November 13, 2022

There is so much to love about this interaction https://t.co/zv2Y5ihrS5

— Ayushi (@dramatickles) November 13, 2022

so pure, no crypto here https://t.co/rpUZL2F0om

— Daniel Roberts (@readDanwrite) November 13, 2022

Penalty! To the Bears! https://t.co/fZgNzQZ7yQ

— Paul Cochrane 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (@mrdissent) November 13, 2022

Piers Mitchem had a serious point to add.

Scenes like this remind me of just how fascinating & beautiful our world is, how much we have to lose, and how important it is that we fight like hell to save it. https://t.co/DOyfXwL1aK

— Piers Mitchem (@piersmitchem) November 13, 2022

Who could argue with that?

Source BBC Image Screengrab