These Alaskan brown bears are at their peak plumpness, but which contestant will win the top prize of Fat Bear 2025?

The annual contest in Alaska’s Katmai National Park honors chunky bears piling on the pounds for winter hibernation.

Fat Bear Week is fun to watch, but packing on pounds is serious business for the bears at Katmai National Park.

Fat Bear Week is fun to watch, but packing on pounds is serious business for the bears at Katmai National Park. How to vote ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — After gorging all summer on sockeye salmon, the portliest brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula will ...

The bears are extremely fat this year, and I’m looking forward to seeing how people react to how fat they are,” says the ...

Patty Salkeld traveled 2,000 miles to Alaska's remote national park to see the brown bears she's been voting for in the ...

Browns bears at Katmai pack on pounds each fall to survive Alaska's harsh winters, turning the park's Brooks Falls into ...

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 brown bears of Katmai National Park have been preparing for this week for months. Who will be voted the fattest bear of ...

Katmai National Park’s Fat Bear Week is back, and thousands of people around the world are ready to cheer for their favorite ...