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What to Know About Fat Bear Week, a Competition to Be the Chonkiest Brown Bear
Fans worldwide vote daily from noon to 9 p.m. ET to select the fattest bears in a bracket-style contest highlighting their crucial weight gain for hibernation survival.
- Fat Bear Week 2025 begins on September 23 in Katmai National Park, where fans vote daily for the fattest brown bear until September 30.
- The event celebrates bears fattening up on abundant sockeye salmon before hibernation, with this year’s voting bracket launched alongside returning and new competitors.
- Bears enter hyperphagia, an uncontrollable feeding phase, to accumulate fat needed for survival and successful reproduction, as explained by park ranger Sarah Bruce.
- Last year, fans participated enthusiastically by submitting over a million votes, and viewers can support conservation while watching live footage of bears at Brooks Falls through Explore.org.
- The competition promotes public engagement in conservation and will crown the winner on September 30 before bears begin hibernation.
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In the Katmai National Park in Alaska, the "Fat Bear Week" starts again on Tuesday, at the end of which the park's fattest bear is named. In the race there are five male brown bears and seven females, among them the serial winner and title defender with the sounding name "Grazer" . For the eleventh time, the park hosts the animal competition in the southwest of Alaska. On the online platform "Explore.org" bears are presented daily for the vote. …
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