Fat Bear Week is a celebration of success and survival. It is a way to celebrate the resilience, adaptability and strength of Katmai’s brown bears. Bears are matched against each other in a tournament style competition and online visitors can vote on which bear is ultimately crowned the Fat Bear Week 2023 Champion.
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🚨IT’S FAT BEAR TUESDAY!🎉 For the second year in a row, 🐻32 Chunk is going up against 🐻128 Grazer in the final battle for the crown👑. Can Chunk win his first championship, or will Grazer remain the queen of fat bears? Get your 🗳votes in now, because at 9PM ET we will be crowning our winner of Bear Week 2024!!!!👑🐻 https://explore.org/fat-bear-week
@Sketchy I had no idea this was a rematch of the '23 finals! That longevity & dominance is crazy impressive.
@Ziddletwix I was also just reading that it's personal between Grazer and Chunk, as Chunk literally killed one of Grazer's cubs:
128 is a particularly defensive mother bear who has successfully raised two litters of cubs. She often preemptively confronts and attacks much larger bears—even large and dominant adult males—in order to ensure her cubs are safe. On an afternoon in July 2024, both of her first-year cubs were swept over Brooks Falls. The water carried both siblings toward 32 "Chunk," the most dominant bear on the river and 32 attacked. 128 rushed to defend her cubs, although not before 32 injured the cub nearest him. The cub later died from its injuries. The surviving cub went on to compete in Fat Bear Junior 2024.
@Sketchy woooooow that's absolutely nuts lol. we don't have blood feuds like this anymore in human sports
@Sketchy The NYP picked up this deranged, Shakespearean story: https://nypost.com/2024/10/09/us-news/grazer-beats-the-behemoth-that-killed-her-cub-to-win-alaskas-fat-bear-contest/
This year’s semi-finals are going to be an exciting round! Four fat bears are fighting it out in today’s polls. Going head to head are two past runners-up: 32 Chunk🐻 and 151 Walker🐻! And 903 Gully🐻 is taking on last year’s winner 128 Grazer🐻! Vote now for who you want to see in tomorrow’s finals! 🗳 https://explore.org/fat-bear-week
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fat-bear-week-2024-death-caught-on-camera/
The fight between a male brown bear and an older female — one of the contestants last year known as Bear 402 — unfolded at the mouth of the Brooks River in Katmai, a protected area on the Alaskan peninsula that draws some of the region's largest grizzlies to feed on sockeye salmon, according to the National Park Service. The bears are currently hunting the end of the seasonal salmon run as they prepare to enter hibernation during the coming winter months.
@Sketchy The bears are fighting each other to the death?? This is not in the spirit of friendly competition!
Fat Bear Week Day 2: Both 909 Jr.🐻and 903🐻grabbed easy victories in yesterday's polls and are moving on to the next round. 🎉
In today’s polls, we have two finalists from prior years going head to head to see who will progress in this competition: 901🐻 vs. 151 Walker🐻. Fat bears 856🐻 and 504🐻 are also competing for a chance to move on.🐟
Cast your votes now! 🗳 https://explore.org/fat-bear-week
