Bears are opportunists: they’ll eat your sleeping bag if it has a bag of granola hidden in the bottom. They’ll forage for berries in the woods, ants in a rotted-out pile of wood, and any kind of meat if it’s easy pickens–like this calf elk in the Arizona woods near Flagstaff, Arizona. But mama elk wasn’t havin’ it.
Watch this Footage of a Mama Elk Battling it Out With a Bear to Save Her Calf
