Fat Bear Week Celebrates Alaska’s Most Flab-ulous In A Bruin Bulge-Off

Fat Bear Week pits the brown bears of Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve towards one another in a contest to find out essentially the most pleasingly plump. (Check out pics that embody among the radiantly rotund opponents beneath.)

It’s all in enjoyable, in fact, to have a good time the wonder and health of the bears, who’re porking out on salmon to arrange for the hibernation forward. Bears can lose as much as a 3rd of their weight of their winter slumber, so it’s vital that they gorge to remain beautiful.

Katmai has posted the March Madness-like bracket and already tabulated just a few winners. But it isn’t too late to vote for winners within the later rounds. The competitors crowns its most corpulent on “Fat Bear Tuesday,” Oct. 5.

Good luck to all of the ursine contenders and keep in mind: no achieve, no reign!

Brown bear 747, aka Bear Force One, is the defending champion. He reveals off his profitable type from 2020 (above.)

This cub’s baby fats will come in useful throughout hibernation. Picture taken Sept. 5, 2021. 

Brown bear 128 waded into stiff competitors for Fat Bear Week. Picture taken Sept. 11, 2021. 

Bear Force One reveals he’s able to eat up the competitors once more. Picture taken Sept. 14, 2021. 

Brown bear 151 fishing for a Fat Bear Week championship. Picture taken Sept. 13, 2021.

Brown bear 435 ― un-fur-tunately now eradicated from competitors ― stands subsequent to a river looking for salmon to fatten up earlier than hibernation. Picture taken Sept. 11, 2021. 

Brown bear 503 fattens up forward of Fat Bear Week. Picture taken Sept. 16, 2021.