Your Voter's Guide to Fat Bear Week
It's that time of year again when you get to pick your favorite brown bear! Fat Bear Week is back and you have until Oct. 11 to cast your ballot for which of the 12 candidates has the chubbiest belly. Don't worry because we have all you need to vote. And if you're an educator, there are resources on how to make this celebration part of your classroom activities.
In many ways, it's a model election. The campaign runs for only one week, and all the candidates are well-grounded and devoid of hypocrisy. In fact, all the candidates are enthusiastically out for themselves — because they are bears, after all, embracing the ursine urge to eat like there's no …
Ladies and gentlebears, welcome to Fat Bear Week 2022! This annual, weeklong competition from Katmai National Park and Preserve is a celebration of a …
Online voting opens October 5!
Large, living legends dwell in the remote Alaskan wilderness. They're the internet-famous bears of Katmai National Park and Preserve, and they grow impressively fat over the summer on the livestreamed explore.org wildlife webcams. A majority of these bears — like the singular, persevering Otis — …
Located on the Alaskan Peninsula just north of Kodiak Island, Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve is known for its volcano-carved landscapes, …
Many people will never get to see Katmai National Park and Preserve's iconic brown bears in person. It's not easy to get to their home on the Alaska Peninsula, and fewer than 25,000 visitors made the trip last year, compared to more than 14 million at America's most visited national park, Great …
Hibernating bears stay healthy despite being very fat and sedentary. New research is focusing on what humans can learn from them. Fat bear week starts today, that glorious autumn tradition when anyone with an internet connection can vote for the plumpest brown bear in Alaska’s Katmai National Park. …
We have once again reached the most important time of the year: Fat Bear Week — and there is one fat bear who is absolutely without equal. Katmai National Park in Alaska begins to track the weight gain of its largest bears in later Summer, as they prepare for hibernation. Gorging on fish, berries, …
