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[[File:sabertoothmooselion_7871_copy2_6290.jpg|link=Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|frame|"How cute! Let's keep it... Aaargh!"]]
 
 
If the characters find a baby wild animal, it is almost certain that a dangerous [[Mama Bear|parent]] [[Papa Wolf|animal]] is nearby, and will soon attack them. The characters will usually get out unscathed, but not without a good chase or fight.
 
In many cases, characters that are not too familiar with animals or the wilderness will attempt to pick up, feed, play with or even adopt the cub. It can result in [[Cuteness Proximity]] or even [[I'm Taking Her Home Withwith Me]].
 
More savvy characters will recognize the possible danger associated with the presence of a baby animal.
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* In ''[[Old Yeller]]'' it's a literal mama bear, when Arliss is playing around trying to catch the bear cub.
* In ''[[Alpha and Omega]]'', Humphrey plays with a bear cub and accidentally makes it cry. The cub's mama and two of her friends come along to make Humphrey pay for it.
* In Disney's ''[[Tarzan (Disney film)|Tarzan]]'' Jane encounters a cute little baby baboon which steals her journal. After Jane steals it back, the baby baboon starts crying calling the attention of its mother and the rest of its family.
* In ''[[Pinocchio (Disney film)|Pinocchio]]'', Jiminy is being hassled by a little fish while in the ocean floor. He starts to shoo it away when its mother appears. Fortunately, she is scared away when he mentions [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Monstro the whale]].
* The Goose that lays the Golden Eggs in ''[[Puss in Boots (Animationanimation)|Puss in Boots]]'' turns out to be the gosling of a [[Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever|very large goose]]. {{spoiler|It's Humpty Dumpty's plan to let Mama thrash the town while he absconded with baby and the eggs.}}
* In ''[[Finding Nemo]]'', when Marlin slaps away a baby jellyfish with his tail after it stings Dory, the swarm of adult jellyfish immediately start swimming toward them.
 
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VII]]'', examining a bird's nest nets a bunch of [[Phoenix Down]] but also cues an encounter with a bird enemy - presumably the mother of the nesting eggs.
* When attacked, the little Bulbords in the ''[[Pikmin (Video Game)|Pikmin]]'' games may cry loud enough to awaken any nearby big Bulborbs.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In the ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' episode "[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)/Bitter Work/Recap|Bitter Work]]", Sokka finds a baby saber-toothed moose-lion cub, and inevitably it's mama is near, and has to be fought off by Aang.
* One episode of ''[[The Wuzzles]]'' involves a baby [[Mix-and-Match Critters|brahma bullfinch]], an adorable little cow-bird creature whose mother happens to be a house-sized engine of destruction. An entire ''flock'' of them descends on Croc's house by the end of the episode, with predictable results.
* In one of the [[Adventures in Odyssey]] videos, Dylan, Jessie, and Carter find a bear cub in the mountains and start fawning over it...only for the growling [[Mama Bear|mother grizzly]] to charge them.