but it’s also become part of a conservation movement. Though the bears are reaching peak fatness this week, Fat Bear Week is an entire summer of eating in the making. The bears eat around 90 pounds of fish, berries, small mammals, and vegetation each day to pack on the ...
The Alaskan park is holding its annual playoff-like competition for the fattest of the fat bears (you can vote online between Oct.4 through Oct. 10). Mashable will be following all the ursine activity. Otis has probably devoured some 25,000 fish in his life. Maybe considerably more. ...
Katmai celebrates the success of these wild animals by hosting an annual Fat Bear Week contest in the early fall. In reality, every bear is a winner for surviving in the harsh northern wilderness. But the public (that means you) gets to vote online for the fattest bear in a light-...
The competition is part ofFat Bear Week, an annual event that pits between eight and 12 ofKatmai National Park and Preserve’s most zaftig bruins against each other in a March Madness-style bracket and lets the park’s Facebook followers vote to determine the fattest bear. Fat Bear Week co...
And I don’t even have a vote. Good heavens no. Your letter was filled with affection. Donald Sutherland.” The ‘government’ comment was a reference to the government in the US, where he’d been living, and its invasion of Iraq. In early 2004, after finally seeing Cold Mountain, I...
Abel: I would have loved to have been able to vote on that, wouldn’t you? I didn’t vote for that. None of us. None of us would have voted for that. And that’s just it. None of us have voted for a lot of what we’re getting. None of us have voted for a lot of ...
The contest compares how much weight each bear gains between July and September before winter. Viewers vote for their favorite bear after looking at the images. 480 Otis has won the competition three times before. He was declared the winner on October 5 after beating runner-up 151 Walker by ...
Katmai National Park and Preserve’s brown bears spent the summer gorging on 4,500-calorie salmon, and they've transformed into rotund giants, some over 1,000 pounds. The Alaskan park is holding its annual playoff-like competition for the fattest of the fat bears (you canvote onlinebetween...
Fat Bear Weekkicks off on Sept. 29. In thiscelebration of conservation, biodiversity, and all of Katmai's bears, you'll be able to vote online in a playoff-style tournament for who you think is the fattest bear. The big boys, like those in the videos above, are already huge. ...
That means that for a brief moment in time, the park is filled with fat bears. And the park, in collaboration with Explore.org and the Katmai Conservancy, pits different bears against each other in a playoff-esque bracket, where fat bear fans vote on their faves, until a victor is anno...