It’s tough to choose which brown bear in Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve is looking the fattest this year. Is it 32 Chunk? Or 128 Grazer? Or maybe 151 Walker? Problem is ...

Happy Fat Bear Week to all who celebrate. The annual competition at the Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska invites people to vote for the chonkiest brown bear when Fat Bear Week kicks off ...

For brown bears — also known as grizzly bears — that’s what autumn is all about! These massive mammals start prepping for their hibernation by eating…a lot. To mark this annual bear habit ...

NEW YORK (WPIX) – Who is the chunkiest brown bear of them all? That’s what the National Park Service is trying to determine during its annual Fat Bear Week competition. Fans can cast their ...

Fat Bear Week is an annual park competition that "celebrates the healthy appetites of brown bears" and "the nourishing ecosystem in which the bears thrive," according to NPS. The annual event ...

allowing people to vote for the bear they believe “best exemplifies fatness and success in brown bears.” But this shocking one-incident wave of bear-on-bear violence leads me to believe a ...

The 2024 Fat Bear Week bracket reveal has been postponed until Tuesday at 7 p.m. ET. The fight between a male brown bear and an older female — one of the contestants last year known as Bear 402 ...

A two-year-old brown bear has undergone pioneering brain surgery in Kent, making him the first ever bear to undergo the procedure in the UK. Specialist wildlife veterinary surgeon, Dr Romain Pizzi ...

“Higuma” brown bears and “tsukinowaguma” Asiatic black bears were included on the designated controlled birds and animals list. Prefectural governments will be asked to develop systems to ...

24. The final Fat Bear Week bracket will be revealed on Sept. 30. Alaska's brown bears are some of the largest bears in the world, with adult males averaging 700 to 900 pounds in mid-summer ...

A big bear named 747 was the 2022 Fat Bear Week champion. This is the most wonderful time of the year for the brown bears of Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska. They’re feasting on fish ...