The park celebrates the success of these plump bears— which global viewers watch on the livestreamed explore.org webcams— by holding an annual Fat Bear Week contest each fall. You can vote online for the fattest bear. In Alaska's Katmai, a region with a wild and flourishing salmon run...
This fat bear's transformation is absolutely stunning The Fat Bear Week winner is the champion we all needed Cannibalism, infanticide: The dark side of Alaska’s bear cam Knowing just how powerful this olfaction is, though, is an open question. ...
Fat Bear Week, which occurs around the first week of October each year, is an online event organized by the Park Service and wildlife livestreamers explore.org. The event shows how the region's brown bears have fared after months of devouring 4,500-calorie sockeye salmon. Fat bears are he...
BEAR-LY RECOGNIZABLE: LIVE CAMERAS SHOW HOW THE FUZZY CREATURES CHANGE AFTER HIBERNATION "Fat Bear Week 2022 might be the biggest ever," explore.org says. Like every single-elimination tournament, the bear with the most votes will advance to the next round and could soon be crowned ch...
Bears are preparing for hibernation, and the public gets to judge a chosen sleuth of bears who have been packing on the pounds for this year's Fat Bear Week competition.
Get the inside scoop on how these brown bears pack on the pounds to prepare for winter, and see before-and-after pictures of fat bears!
But on Tuesday organizers revealed the four cub contestants in this week’s Fat Bear Jr. contest— with the “chubby champ charging on to face the corpulent competition” in the adult bracket, as Naomi Boak of the nonprofit Katmai Conservancy put it during the livestreamed announcement. The ...
How to compete in Fat Bear Week Starting on Monday, participants can start filling out their brackets as head-to-head matchups are announced during a live chat on the Explore.org website. From Thursday through Oct. 10, voters can cast their ballots at fatbearweek.org. The winner will be...
The Alaska national park puts on Fat Bear Week annually as a way to raise awareness about the 2,200-pound brown bears that live in the park. Every year, they gorge themselves on salmon, rapidly putting on pounds to prepare for the long, cold winter. ...
Last year, bear 747deposed hyper-aggressive bear 856(also a regular competitor in the annual Fat Bear Week contest) as the river's most dominant bear. 856 hadruled the river for about a decade, so this was a significant shift in the fat bear hierarchy. On the livestreamingexplore.orgcamer...