Alaska grizzly bears packing on pounds (kilos) for the winter are competing for ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska grizzly bears packing on pounds for the winter are competing for more than the season’s last salmon. They are also vying for the title of the state’s fattest bear.
Fat Bear Week has become a national internet sensation, pitting individual bears against each other in an online voting contest. This year’s event, organized by Katmai National Park and Preserve, started with 12 bears.for online voters to examine. As of Monday morning, the remaining contenders were Lefty, Grazer and Holly, a bear that gained fame a few years ago for adopting an abandoned cub.
More than just fat-worshiping fun, the celebration is a valuable way to promote the park and educate the public, Boak said. She noted that schools from as far away as the East Coast have incorporated Fat Bear Week into their curriculum. “What a great way to get students excited about the natural world,” she said.
When Katmai’s July temperatures approached 90 F degrees , bears stopped fishing and started trying to beat the heat, not easy for fat animals with thick, shaggy coats, Boak said. “There was a lot of lying down in the water,” she said.Salmon were affected, too. For a while, Boak said, salmon lingered downstream in a lake cooled by glacial melt, avoiding the excessively warm waters of Brooks River.
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