World News Headlines September 4, 2021 Under One Ceiling 0 The fat bears are already extremely fat 0 0000 0 0 more The fat bears are already extremely fat September 4, 2021 Under One Ceiling now playing Transferring money from UAE abroad: what are my cheapest options September 4, 2021 Under One Ceiling WIN With Nespresso This Mother’s Day September 4, 2021 Under One Ceiling NBA Playoffs 2022: A Casual Fan's Guide to the Postseason September 4, 2021 Under One Ceiling Best New Climbing Gear of 2022 September 4, 2021 Under One Ceiling A Local Weekend Travel Guide to Austin, Texas September 4, 2021 Under One Ceiling First Drive: 2022 Range Rover Ups the Luxury SUV Experience September 4, 2021 Under One Ceiling Most Stylish Rain Jackets, Parkas, and Trench Coats for Men September 4, 2021 Under One Ceiling EU eyes Russian oil import ban as Moscow strikes western Ukraine September 4, 2021 Under One Ceiling World-class Clark Int’l Airport opens new 110,000 square-meter passenger terminal September 4, 2021 Under One Ceiling PCG: Bodies of 5 children who drowned in Taal Lake found September 4, 2021 Under One Ceiling The fat bears are already extremely fat The fat bears exemplify success. Many of the brown bears at Katmai National Park and Preserve have put on hundreds of pounds this summer as they’ve devoured bounties of 4,500-calorie salmon. Their goal is to outlast the long-winter famine by surviving off their fat stores during hibernation, and many succeed. Their natural triumph is already conspicuous in early September 2021, about a month before the park holds its annual Fat Bear Week contest, and some two months before hibernation begins. That is to say, many bears are already impressively fat, and will still grow fatter. Footage from the explore.org bear cams (which livestream Katmai’s bears along the park’s fish-filled Brooks River) shows the profound size of some of the river’s more dominant bears, which earn access to the river’s most fruitful fishing spots. But pretty much all these Katmai bears are looking “healthily pudgy,” Mike Fitz, a former Katmai park ranger and currently a resident naturalist for explore.org, told Mashable. “He’s a tank once again.” The first video below shows perhaps the largest bear of the river, the aptly-numbered bear 747, who won last year’s Fat Bear Week contest. He’s the rotund bear on the right. “He’s a tank once again,” said Fitz Tweet may have been deleted Tweet may have been deleted Tweet may have been deleted At Katmai, the brown bears largely feast on sockeye salmon, which spend two or three years at sea (themselves fattening up on tiny sea creatures) before returning to the streams they were born in to create new generations of salmon. This is the annual salmon run. Typically, the prodigious run up Katmai’s Brooks River ramps up in early July. This year, it kicked into gear in late July, but was a strong run, noted Fitz. Now, the bears are still feasting on later runs of a different salmon species, called silver, or coho, salmon. SEE ALSO: There’s a new giant king of the fat bears Fat Bear Week kicks off on Sept. 29. In this celebration of conservation, biodiversity, and all of Katmai’s bears, you’ll be able to vote online in a playoff-style tournament for who you think is the fattest bear. The big boys, like those in the videos above, are already huge. But the competition will be stiff. The bear 128 (“Grazer”) and her yearling cubs (yearlings are back for their second summer) have expertly caught and feasted on salmon atop the Brooks River waterfall this year. They’ve also fattened up, and promise to be formidable contenders. “She and her yearlings are huge,” said Fitz. Related Related posts: China’s ambassador challenged on treatment of Uighurs tags: RSS Feed World News 0000 0 0 previous Save almost 60% on a convenient, portable Apple Watch charger next What the two end credits scenes of 'Shang-Chi' mean for the MCU
