Brown Bears – Fusion Nepal

Welcome to Fat Bear Week at Mashable! Each fall, Katmai National Park holds a competition as Alaska’s brown bears finish fattening up for their long winter hibernation. This year, Mashable is getting in on the salmon-munching action. Check back with us all week as we follow the fat bear face-offs each day, and remember to get your votes in for each round. Happy fishing!

Just eight fat bears remain. The Fat Bear Week quarterfinals have arrived.

Thursday’s matchups saw the chubby cubbies fall to Bear 719 and Chunk beat out Bear 812, and Friday’s heat-to-heads look particularly competitive.

The first features a matchup between last year’s champion, Bear 480 “Otis,” and the impressively filled-out Bear 409 “Beadnose” — also a former champion. Voting opened on the Katmai Facebook page at 10 a.m. ET. Read more…

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