Mama bear and 4 cubs surprise drivers on North Carolina road

These animals are bears, not chickens, but that didn’t stop them from crossing the road.

Travis Platek, the son of a tour coordinator at North Carolina’s Grandfather Mountain, captured footage Sunday of a mother bear and her four cubs bounding across a road in downtown Banner Elk.

Luckily, cars stopped to let the family pass, and all five bears went into the woods and on their merry way.