E ager viewers across the globe tuned in to watch brown bears fishing for salmon in Katmai National Park yesterday in the lead up to Fat Bear Week, but things took a grizzly turn when two bruins ...

Fat Bear Week is back as Alaska's grizzly bears gorge themselves on spawning salmon in preparation for hibernation. ... or fishing technique that sways you, you have plenty to go on.

Making Grazer's double victory all the sweeter is that her opponent, a 1,200 lb male bear named 32 Chunk, killed her cub back in July after it was washed over a waterfall. "This is a win for moms ...

There's good reason to celebrate all the fat bears competing in Fat Bear Week 2022 at Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska. Skipping the US Travel 2025 🌴 This country's safest A ...

Chunky one-ton Alaskan bear ‘747’ wins Fat Bear Week competition yet again. 747 led the polls by 10,000 votes against 901, a female bear who fiercely “defends her fishing spots from other ...

The Fat Bear Week contestants and bracket were released Monday. The first round pits Bear 335 against Bear 164, and Bear 747 against Bear 856. Bears 747 and 856 have a past rivalry, competing for the ...

Fans can now cast their votes for the bulkiest grizzlies in Alaska's Katmai National Park, as the 2024 Fat Bear Week contest begins. Latest U.S.

Bear 504, another competitor, is a large female participating in her first Fat Bear Week. She joins her daughter, Bear 519, who is entering the contest on her own for the first time.

This story appears in the August 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a drizzly autumn morning on the coast of British Columbia, a shadowy figure lumbers down to shore. A black bear has ...