Terrible Mistake
During the course of a bright and beautiful morning on the shores of Lake Vygozero, a mother bear made the decision to swim across the lake with her young cubs. We will never know whether she did this in the hope of getting to a location on the other side that appeared to have a lot of potential or in the hope that her young children would learn how to swim from her.
But whatever her motivation was, it turned out to be a terrible decision that led to disastrous consequences. The mother bear, despite her many years of experience and instincts as one of the region’s top predators, had made an error in her calculation, and as a result, the mother bear’s cubs were in imminent danger of losing their lives.