As it falls and eventually lies down in the street, a large bear emerges from beside it, looking warily into the traffic before venturing out to grab the smaller bear by the scruff of its neck.
The video, filmed in Immokalee, Florida, captures the injured black bear cub as it stumbles in the busy road at West Main Street after being hit by a vehicle
It then begins to drag the cub onto the hard shoulder and away from further danger, before turning and fleeing into the grass.
As it falls and eventually lies down in the street, a two large bears emerge from beside it and attempt to pull the fallen cub to safety
‘It was heartbreaking to see that’, she said. ‘It crushed me. I see myself as a momma bear. I have a baby, so a baby in the road hit [me]. Whether it’s a bear or a human, it’s sad’.
Lisha DeShay, who captured the video when she stopped in her car, said it ‘crushed’ her to see the apparent family of bears struggle to save one of their own