Un-bear-lievable ball skills! Mother bear entertains her cub with a football after stealing it from children as they played match in an Indian village

This is the hilarious moment two wild bears started playing with a football that they nabbed from a group of children, before running away with it.

The mother bear and her offspring were lurking by a thicket of trees in Sukigaon, in the Nabarangpur district of eastern India, when children accidentally kicked the ball near them while playing a village football match.

Incredible video footage, taken on September 12, shows the two black bears deciding to have some fun of their own after stealing the ball from the children.This is the hilarious moment two wild bears started playing with a football that they nabbed from a group of children, before running away with it.

The mother bear and her offspring were lurking by a thicket of trees in Sukigaon, in the Nabarangpur district of eastern India, when children accidentally kicked the ball near them while playing a village football match.

Incredible video footage, taken on September 12, shows the two black bears deciding to have some fun of their own after stealing the ball from the children.After playing with the ball for almost a minute, the mother puts it in her mouth and makes a run for it, disappearing off into the cluster of trees, closely followed by her cub.

Watching from afar, the children manage to track down the wild black bears again and find them wrestling next to a pathway.

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After playing with the ball for almost a minute, the mother puts the ball in her mouth and makes a run for it, disappearing off into the cluster of trees, closely followed by her cub

It is not known whether the amateur footballers were able to retrieve their football from the playful bears, or whether they had to accept defeat and abandon the match. 

The local forest department said playing with the ball would have come as an instinct to the black bears.

A divisional forest officer told First Post: 'They examine and try to find out the nature of any object that they find for the first time.'