Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An enormous boar, 747 was first identified as a few years old in 2004. Related: Brown Bear Kills a Sow in NPS Livestream, ...

The Fat Bear Week competition has grown exponentially since it started as a Facebook vote in 2014. “It's positive, it's a celebration, and it's also really fun,” says Mike Fitz, a former Katmai park ...

“The bears are extremely fat this year, and I’m looking forward to seeing how people react to how fat they are,” says the former ranger who helped invent the popular contest. The Fat Bear Week ...

Fat Bear Week, when people get to pick their favorite Alaskan brown bear bulking up for hibernation, is coming early this year. The annual online competition that normally starts in early October will ...

A brown bear is catching salmon at the Brooks River waterfall, Katmai National Park, Alaska. Fat Bear Week 2025 kicks off with Fat Bear Junior on September 18, giving everyone a chance to crown the ...

Fat Bear 2025 named the winning bear after voting completed on Sept. 30. Bears Chunk and 856 made the final round This image provided by the National Park Service shows bear 32 Chunk at Katmai ...

Every fall, the internet collectively obsesses over some of Alaska’s chunkiest residents. Featured Video Katmai National Park’s Fat Bear Week is back, and thousands of people around the world are ...

Katmai National Park’s annual Fat Bear Week is underway again: A time when the general public watches livestreams of feeding and fighting brown bears at Brooks Falls in southwest Alaska. Though it’s a ...