🐻 Fat Bear Week 🐻
The CHONKIEST week of the year!
It's that time of year again! The leaves are changing, the days are getting shorter, and the bears are getting chunkier. Every fall, some of the largest brown bears in the world gorge themselves on sockeye salmon at Brooks River in Katmai National Park, Alaska. To the delight of internet onlookers, the slender bears prepare for hibernation by ballooning into fluffy brown blimps.
Fat Bear Week is an annual tournament taking place every
October.
It pits bears in
Katmai National Park against each
other in a week-long bracket style competition, evaluating a bear's
“success in preparation for winter hibernation.” Participants vote to
decide who they deem is the "fattest" bear.
Previous Fat Bear Week Champions 🥇
- 2021: Otis
- 2020: Bear Force One
- 2019: Holly
- 2018: Beadnose
- 2017: Otis
- 2016: Otis
- 2015: Beadnose
- 2014: Otis