Fat Bear Week is an annual tournament-style competition to find the fattest bear at Katmai National Park in Alaska, US.
Fat Bear week is an annual tournament-style competition to find the fattest bear at Katmai National Park in Alaska, US.The competition started in 2014, and pulled in over 1 million votes last year. Now, he is a large adult male with "narrowly-set eyes, a prominent brow ridge, and a distinctive scar across his muzzle."The competition shows off the bears before they enter hibernation, where they will lose one-thrid of their body weight as they rely soley on fat reserves.
He isn't much of a hunter, and rather sits patiently and waits for fish to swim past him in the river.Bucky doesn't compete with other bears for fish at the river and Brooks Falls - instead, he waits at the base of Brooks Falls and catches salmon welling up from the deepest part of the falls - the plunge pool. The bear's long neck and shoulder hump make her impossible to misidentify.435 Holly is a blonde adult female.
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