A female brunette woman named 909, known for her blonde ears and her fishing skills, is seen last fall in the Brooks river in Katmai National Park. While the Bears of the Park behave in books to prepare for hibernation, online voters choose a winner of the annual tournament of the support of the Fat Bear Week week.
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Fat Bear Week, when people can choose their favorite Brown Brown Brown Brown, arrives early this year. The annual online competition which is starting normally in early October will begin on September 23. Katmai National Park and conservation managers say that the bears are beautifully Dodus before the tournament.
“This year’s salmon was extraordinary, with salmon figures exceeding everything that is seen in recent memory,” said Matt Johnson, director of the park’s interpretation program at NPR by e-mail. “Consequently, Katmai brown bears are well fed and are looking for other things to do in addition to scrap metal[p]each other for food. “”
The Fat Bear Week 2025 support will be revealed on September 22, when fans see where the familiar names of the old champions, such as 128 Grazer, 480 Otis and 747 – AKA Bear Force One, estimate to weigh 1,400 pounds – accumulate against new defects. The single elimination tournament begins on September 23 and takes place until September 30, when a new champion emerges. Fat Bear Junior, for Bear Cubs, started on Thursday.
The organizers expect the votes from the whole planet.
“More than a million votes were expressed for the Bears in 2024 in a hundred countries,” said the park, announcing the dates of this year.
Katmai’s brown bears occupy the rarest strata of celebrity: captivating and unconscious, thanks to the “bearcams” that radiate their activities in the falls of picturesque brooks and other areas of online viewers from all over the world.
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The abundance of salmon in Katmai National Park and Bristol Bay in southern Alaska contributes to a drop in conflict between bears this year compared to 2024 competition, which was delayed when a large bear killed another. The voters then propelled Grazer to a landslide victory on the huge piece of 32, a bear which, months earlier, had killed one of the Cubs of Grazer.
“This year, there was less congregation in Brooks Falls, fewer fights and – surprisingly – substantially more playing time with each other,” said Johnson.
Chunk brings a convincing scenario to this year’s competition. This summer, he arrived at the river with a broken jaw and other injuries that would be the result of a fight, according to explore.org, which exploits webcams in the park. Since then, he has been seen fishing and adapting to his injury – “and even playing gently with younger bears like 503,” said Katmai Conservancy, while he was celebrating the resilience of the bear.
“Always here. Always fishing. Always doing a song,” said the group.
The Fat Bear Week started in 2014 as a means for the general public and students to learn more about brown bears, red salmon and the dynamic ecosystem they share. Viewers look at that bears that have emerged in spring and bone enter into a affection called hyperphagia, which attaches an incessant hunger to eat so that they can wrap in grease they will need to survive another winter.
As autumn arrives, great men regularly exceed 1,000 pounds, according to the Katmai website.
“There are between 80 and 100 bears that return to the Brooks river each year,” said Sarah Bruce, media director at the National Park, at NPR. Most of them have learned to fish the river like bears alongside their mother bears, she said. Only 12 of them are presented in the annual competition of the Fat Bear Week.
Overall, the National Park and the Katmai reserve has around 2,200 bears within its limits, said Bruce.
