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Fat Bear Week 2025: The Finalists and the Superfans | Fat Bear Week 2025: Who Will Be Crowned the Beefiest Bruin? | Fat Bear Week 2025: Brawny Bruins Battle Early | Fat Bear Week 2025: Voting Opens to Crown Katmai's Chunkiest Champion | Fat Bear Week 2025: The Finalists and the Superfans | Fat Bear Week 2025: Who Will Be Crowned the Beefiest Bruin? | Fat Bear Week 2025: Brawny Bruins Battle Early | Fat Bear Week 2025: Voting Opens to Crown Katmai's Chunkiest Champion

Wildlife / Fat Bear Week

Fat Bear Week 2025: The Finalists and the Superfans

Fat Bear Week 2025 has reached its culmination, showcasing the incredible transformations of Katmai National Park's brown bears as they prepare for hibernation. This annual event not only highlights the bears' impressive weight gain but als...

Fat Bear Week final four: a queen and the three boars
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News / Animals

Fat Bear Week 2025: Who Will Be Crowned the Beefiest Bruin?

Fat Bear Week is an annual competition held at Katmai National Park in Alaska, where brown bears compete to see who can gain the most weight before winter hibernation. This year's competition is underway, with voters from around the world p...

Fat Bear Week Voting Begins at Alaska’s Katmai National Park

Animals / Bears

Fat Bear Week 2025: Brawny Bruins Battle Early

Fat Bear Week, the annual celebration of Alaska’s brown bears preparing for hibernation, has started early this year due to an exceptional salmon run. Katmai National Park’s bears are plumper than ever, leading to less competition and more...

Fat Bear Week is here early, and the bears are fat and playful

News / Animals

Fat Bear Week 2025: Voting Opens to Crown Katmai's Chunkiest Champion

Every fall, the brown bears of Katmai National Park in Alaska engage in a crucial ritual: feasting on salmon to build up fat reserves for the long winter hibernation. This natural phenomenon is celebrated through Fat Bear Week, an annual on...

What is "Fat Bear Week?" Contest kicks off at national park in Alaska