--- description: Her name is Smudge, making her even cuter title: This Rescued Bear Cub Is a Tiny Bundle of Pure Cuteness [VIDEO] image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # This Rescued Bear Cub Is a Tiny Bundle of Pure Cuteness by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 11, 2014 5:10 PM CUT by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 11, 2014 5:10 PM CUT It probably isn’t healthy for us to be so thoroughly obsessed with a bear cub, but here we are. This is Smudge, a four-month-old moon bear who was rescued from a [bile farm](https://www.animalsasia.org/us/our-work/end-bear-bile-farming/ "undefined") in Nanning, China. Watch here as she does _unfathomably_ adorable things like roll an apple around with her head and wiggle in delight while receiving a belly rub. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2858062/this-rescued-bear-cub-is-a-tiny-bundle-of-pure-cuteness/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2858062/this-rescued-bear-cub-is-a-tiny-bundle-of-pure-cuteness/"},"headline":"This Rescued Bear Cub Is a Tiny Bundle of Pure Cuteness","datePublished":"2014-06-11T17:10:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:10:39.170Z","description":"Her name is Smudge, making her even cuter","url":"https://time.com/2858062/this-rescued-bear-cub-is-a-tiny-bundle-of-pure-cuteness/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","viral","Bears"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2858062/this-rescued-bear-cub-is-a-tiny-bundle-of-pure-cuteness/","name":"This Rescued Bear Cub Is a Tiny Bundle of Pure Cuteness"}}]}] ```