Up, Up, Up!
"Uh, mom...need a little help here. Mom? MOM?!" A USGS grizzly bear researcher snapped this picture of a mother grizzly bear and her cub at Gibbon River in Yellowstone National Park. Adult females are the most important segment of the grizzly bear populations because they are the reproductive engine.
Photo credit: Frank van Manen, USGS. Original public domain image from Flickr