Fat Bear Week
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Fat Bear Week crowns its heavyweight champion: 89 BackpackBackpack outweighed 16 beefed up bears from five bear families, who call Alaska’s Katmai National Park home, to secure the ultimate prize.TrendingOct 1
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Fat Bear Week is back. Meet the heavyweights vying for the titleThe annual contest begins on Sept. 22, the first day of fall, with voting for the carb-loading contenders open to the public until Sept. 29.TrendingSep 22
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It’s not just Fat Bear Week in Alaska: Trail cameras capturing wolves, moose and moreNear a well-populated neighborhood in Anchorage, the state’s biggest city, several trail cameras regularly capture animals ranging in size from wolverines to moose.EnvironmentOct 12, 2024
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Battle of the bulge: The winner of Fat Bear Week 2023 is…All that salmon adds up, and the 2023 Fat Bear Week champ has the flab to prove it!TrendingOct 11, 2023
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Champions of Chomp: Meet the flabby Fat Bear Week contenders for 2023There can only be one Fat Bear Week winner and this year's slate is looking impressively large.TrendingOct 4, 2023
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The beefiest bears of 2022: Fat Bear Week is back with these chunky contendersFat Bear Week is an annual competition that pits the brown bears of Katmai National Park in Alaska against one another in a March Madness-style bracket.TrendingOct 5, 2022
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