A Mexican mother helped her son stay calm during an encounter with a bear that had jumped onto their picnic table and devoured their tacos.

Watch as a bear seems to wait for food at a picnic table, then puts its head down to rest.

A 500-pound bear with chestnut fur and a tan muzzle hunches over a picnic table in a Mammoth Lakes campground, picking over T-bone steak and jostling drinking glasses.

A Mexican mother bravely shielded her son after a bear leapt on a picnic table and devoured the tacos and enchiladas meant for the boy's birthday dinner, inches from his face.

A picnic table in Mexico was taken over by a hungry black bear while a mother, shielding her frightened son, and a friend remained calm, as they were helpless to do anything to save their food ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican mother bravely shielded her son after a bear leapt on a picnic table and devoured the tacos and enchiladas meant for the boy’s birthday dinner, inches from his ...

A mother bravely shielded her son after a bear leapt on a picnic table and devoured the tacos and enchiladas meant for the boy's birthday dinner, inches from his face.

Silvia Macías was celebrating her son's birthday in Monterrey, Mexico, when a bear jumped on their picnic table and devoured their food.

A mother bravely shielded her son after a bear leapt on a picnic table and devoured the tacos and enchiladas meant for the boy's birthday dinner, inches from his face.

A Mexican mother bravely shielded her son after a bear leapt on a picnic table and devoured the tacos and enchiladas meant for the boy’s birthday dinner, inches from his face.