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Fat Bear Week begins on 4 October and ends on 10 October, when the fattest bear at Katmai National Park and Preserve will be crowned
Fat Bear Week begins on 4 October and ends on 10 October, when the fattest bear at Katmai National Park and Preserve will be crowned
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Alaska's Katmai Park is bringing back its annual Fat Bear Week on Oct. 4, and here's how you can vote for your favorite bear preparing for hibernation.
The National Parks Service announced Fat Bear Week will begin on Oct. 4.
The irreverent annual contest, created by the administrators at Alaska's Katmai National Park, celebrates the park's many brown bears — said to be some of the largest on Earth — and their efforts to fatten up for hibernation.