(KTLA) -- A mama bear and her fluffy cub were seen escaping the heat in a California family’s backyard pool on Friday afternoon – a heartwarming wildlife encounter for the homeowners.

Safe and secure for now, the spirit bear recently gained additional protection when British Columbia made it an offense of up to $104,000 ($100,000 Canadian) to shoot a white bear anywhere in the ...

We’re seated on logs at the bend of a river inside British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest, a 6.4-million-hectare temperate wilderness on Canada’s Pacific Coast.

A mama bear and her fluffy cub were seen escaping the heat in a California family’s backyard pool on Friday afternoon – a heartwarming wildlife encounter for the homeowners.

A mama bear and her fluffy cub were seen escaping the heat in a California family’s backyard pool on Friday afternoon – a heartwarming wildlife encounter for the homeowners.

A mama bear and her fluffy cub were seen escaping the heat in a California family’s backyard pool on Friday afternoon – a heartwarming wildlife encounter for the homeowners.

A mama bear and her fluffy cub were seen escaping the heat in a San Gabriel Valley family’s backyard pool on Friday afternoon – a heartwarming wildlife encounter for the homeowners. The ...

A mama bear and her fluffy cub were seen escaping the heat in a California family’s backyard pool on Friday afternoon – a heartwarming wildlife encounter for the homeowners.

(KTLA) — A mama bear and her fluffy cub were seen escaping the heat in a California family’s backyard pool on Friday afternoon – a heartwarming wildlife encounter for the homeowners.

A mama bear and her fluffy cub were seen escaping the heat in a California family’s backyard pool on Friday afternoon – a heartwarming wildlife encounter for the homeowners.

(KTLA) — A mama bear and her fluffy cub were seen escaping the heat in a California family’s backyard pool on Friday afternoon – a heartwarming wildlife encounter for the homeowners.