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What to Know About Fat Bear Week, and the Brawny Bruins Ready to Battle for the Title

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The brawny bruins on the Alaska Peninsula are ready to brawl it out to see which will win this year’s fattest bear title in the wildly popular annual online voting contest known as Fat Bear Week. The main event featuring adult bears starts next week, but first up Thursday is what the National Park Service calls a “chubby cubby appetizer.” Fat Bear Jr. voters can cast ballots through Friday for their favorite adolescent u…

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What to know about Fat Bear Week, and the brawny bruins ready to battle for the title

The annual Fat Bear Week featuring gluttonous brown bears at Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve is back.

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It's Almost Fat Bear Week 2025—Meet Some of the Contenders

Are you one of the gobs of folks looking forward to Fat Bear Week 2025? Fat Bear Week is a week-long celebration of the grizzly bears that live in Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve—particularly those that congregate at the Brooks River to gorge themselves on fatty salmon as they start to prepare their bodies for winter hibernation. This year’s competition will be the 11th annual Fat Bear Week. Explore.org, which operates live-stream tra…

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