Hangry bear gobbles up ducklings at the zoo in front of horrified children: ‘That was not nice’
The “Five Little Ducks” were met with a grizzly end.
A zoo bear named Juniper shocked guests at a girl’s birthday party after devouring ducklings that had landed in its enclosure, as seen in a video with over 2 million views on TikTok.
“A #natgeo trainwreck for my daughters’ birthday, thanks JUNIPER,” mother Rachelle captioned the clip of the impromptu feeding.
She and her fellow revelers, which comprised both adults and children, had reportedly been celebrating her daughter’s birthday at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, Washington.
The bash took a turn when the party-goers stopped by the bear exhibit and witnessed a 2-year-old female coastal brown bear, named Juniper, eyeing a momma duck and her ducklings that had alighted in the enclosure.
That’s when the humongous quack addict decided to make its move.
In the traumatizing clip, the mother duck and her brood are swimming through the pool as Juniper watches them hungrily from the bank.
All of a sudden, the hangry bruin jumps into the drink and makes a bee-line for the ducklings, causing them to scatter across the pond. She then proceeds to gobble them up one by one like chicken nuggets as the onlookers gasp in shock.
“It isn’t nice,” cries one aghast tot, to which the adult videographer replies, “That was not nice.”
Needless to say, the TikTok and commentariat was shocked by the “grizzly” violence.
“That poor mama duck,” exclaimed one aghast viewer, while another wrote, “This makes me so sad omg.”
A third wrote, “The way I would never recover from this as a kid, I still probably won’t recover from this even as an adult.”
“Mama duck said quack quack quack and no little ducks came wandering back,” quipped another while parodying the “Five Little Ducks” nursery rhyme.
Fortunately, Rachelle assured viewers that the kids were not “traumatized” by the quacker-crunching carnage.
“We see wildlife doing their thing all over where we live,” she said, snarking, “Oh and we also let them watch Dave Attenborough shows *gasp.*”
While ducklings might seem like small prey for a brown bear — which can weigh over 1,0000 pounds — the omnivorous critters are highly opportunistic when it comes to feeding.
According to the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center, these big galoots consume everything from fish to moose and “a variety of birds” as well as leaves and berries.
