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...
Fat Bear Weekis officiallyunderway. The 10th annual contest will determine 2024’s best hefty hibernator currently chowing down on salmon in Alaska’sKatmai National Park. From October 2-8, millions of people tune intoExplore.org’s live streams overlookingBrooks River—one of the region’s most...
000 pounds and females to about two-thirds that weight before they retreat to their hibernation dens in the mountains. even before this year’s fat bear week, holly was well-known to fans of alaska wildlife. she has been a regular to millions of viewers who watch footage from the ...
Each day of Fat Bear Week, which spans from September 29 to October 5, the public is asked to choose between the “fattest of the fat” in online daily mashups. Voters can judge the bears on any combination of criteria—floofiness, chonkiness, or inexplicable charm. Enthusiasts ca...
Anyone with an internet connection can tune into Katmai National Park’s live Bearcam to watch the behemoths binge on salmon, and viewers can vote each day for their favorite big beasts. The Fat Bear Week 2020 bracket Image: Katmai National Park and Preserve Fat bears are healthy bears. ...
Last week, as I’m sure most of you know, Tara Parker-Pope of the New York Times did a piece called “The Fat Trap,” which was both about the virtual impossibility of significant weight loss (at least without literally making it a full-time job) — and in the end, also about Ms...
The July death of Grazer’s cub hasn’t been the only bear-on-bear attack to catch the public’s attention. Last week, viewers of the live cam might have gotten more than they bargained for when Bear No. 469, a male, approached, attacked and eventually killed Bear No. 402, a female...
How to survive a bear attack – or better yet, avoid one altogether Live cam The live camfrom the Brooks River at Katmai is a popular online feature. The contest is fun way to highlight the rhythm of life for bears foraging on the salmon of the Brooks and other rivers and streams at...
Fall, however, is for fat bears – and for Katmai National Park & Preserve’s annual Fat Bear Week and its accompanying tournament of crowning a chubby champion for 2022. And unlike that bracket-busting basketball tourney, you can actually participate in and sway this contest. Online voting ...
“The bear is the apex predator in most of the ecosystems where they live, so the abundance of them is a good indication of how healthy the ecosystem is,” Miller explained. “For example, Fat Bear Week is a great indicator of how healthy the ecosystem is in Katmai. The salmon...