Usually having the high ground in a battle is beneficial, but it didn’t work out like that in this Yellowstone National Park standoff.

The grizzly bear in this footage shows that you don’t have to be big to fight big. Of all the animals you could choose to pick a fight with (I’m talking from the perspective of other wild animals), the grizzly bear is probably on the short list of worst predators to match up against.

Grizzlies are known to be some of the fiercest animals on the planet. This one didn’t have the full-bodied size that many grizzly bears possess (at least not yet), but it still had razor-sharp claws and incomparable strength.

That’s probably why these Yellowstone wolves challenged the bruin while also never getting all that close to the wild animal. It was a smart move by the canines, even though they actually appeared to have a size advantage on the younger bear.

That bear wasn’t letting those wolves get close to the food it had claimed as its own… at least not until it had finished its portion.