(NEXSTAR) – Fat Bear Week is off to a violent start this year. The scheduled reveal of the bracket and all the chunky contestants was pushed back by a day after one bear, No. 469, attacked and killed another bear, No. 402, Monday morning. The attack was seen live on webcams at ...
Fat Bear Week 2023, the ninth-annual edition of a "March madness-style" bracket competition that pits the fattest brown bears at Katmai National Park in Alaska against each other, is set to begin, Keith Moore, lead interpretive park ranger at Katmai National Park and Preserve, told ABC News...
the occurrence of this hybrid in nature was confirmed by testing the DNA of a unique-looking bear who had been shot near Sachs Harbour, Northwest Territories, on Banks Island in the Canadian
The Fat Bear Jr. Contest, in which the “chubby champ” will go on to face those in the adult bracket. The voting ends Friday, Sept. 27th. This year’s Fat Bear Week contestants include two former champs from 2022 and 2023. Park officials assure everyone that these ferocious competitors ...
In the other half of the bracket, the first-round match has Bear 856, an older male and one of the most recognizable bears on the river because of his large body, challenging a newcomer, Bear 504, a mother bear raising her second known litter. The winn...
For Fat Bear Week, park rangers create a tournament bracket where the massive bears a pitted against each other in an online fan vote. National Park Service Meet This Year's Fat Bear Week Winner After more than 1.3 million votes, the bear known as 128 Grazer was crowned this year's Fat...
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 ...
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Katmai National Park's Fat Bear Week contest is now underway, with 13 very large omnivores pitted against each other in a playoff-like bracket. Each day, you canplace your votes, but have you ever wondered which fat bear you would be if you lived in Katmai?
For Fat Bear Week, park rangers create a tournament bracket where the massive bears a pitted against each other in an online fan vote. National Park Service Meet This Year's Fat Bear Week Winner After more than 1.3 million votes, the bear known as 128 Grazer was crowned this year's Fat...