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10 animals that hibernate, aside from bears

sudshr47 October 10, 2018

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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! 

For one glorious week in October we get to celebrate the fat bears of the world. 

Thanks to explore.org‘s bear cam position on the Brooks River in Alaska, viewers spend a full season getting to know brown bears gorging themselves on calorie-dense salmon while fattening up for their winter of hibernation. Read more…

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We officially have a Fat Bear Week champion, and she’s glorious

sudshr47 October 9, 2018

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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!

After consuming exceptional quantities of salmon this summer, Bear 409 “Beadnose” has triumphed as the 2018 Fat Bear Week champion.

She toppled a formidable contender in Bear 747, a dominant male bear whose enriched belly nearly scraped the ground. Read more…

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The Fat Bear Week finals are here. Which fat bear will reign supreme?

sudshr47 October 9, 2018

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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!

After six days of strong competition, the Fat Bear Week finals have arrived.

Katmai National Park, where these wild bears live and hibernate, amusingly calls the pinnacle of the week-long contest “Fat Bear Tuesday.” 

This year’s Tuesday match features two profoundly fat bears, both of whom clearly exploited a Brooks River that teemed with 2018’s exceptional and long run of 4,500-calorie salmon.  Read more…

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Massive bruisers go head to head in the last Fat Bear Week semifinal match

sudshr47 October 8, 2018

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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!

The Fat Bear Week finals showdown is nearly set: Profoundly plump Bear 409 (also known as Beadnose) awaits the winner of Monday’s semifinal showdown. 

The match pits two of the largest and most dominant Brooks River bears against one another: Bear 32 “Chunk” and Bear 747.  Read more…

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Sunday’s Fat Bear Week face off pits two fat favorites against each other

sudshr47 October 7, 2018

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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!

Fat bear aficionados, it’s time to meet your final four.

In an upset that won’t soon be forgotten, Bear 32 Chunk took down the most dominant bear at the river this summer, Bear 856. Bear 856’s fat just couldn’t cut it. 

In Saturday’s second matchup, Bear 747 — a beloved fat bear by watchers of the river’s drama — also advanced to the final four beating out the smaller, Bear 719. Read more…

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Day 4 of Fat Bear Week voting pits a bully against a chunky favorite at the Brooks River

sudshr47 October 6, 2018

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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!

Saturday is a day of Fat Bear Week legends.

Bear 32, known appropriately as “Chunk” by his fans, is facing down Bear 856, the scarred bully of the Brooks River. Voting is open until 10:00 p.m. ET on Saturday via Katmai National Park’s Facebook page. Read more…

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Bear hibernation is a superpower, but it comes with a cost

sudshr47 October 6, 2018

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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!

Some bears hibernate in hollowed out tree-trunks. Some take a months-long rest beneath thick brambles and brush. Others dig into the hills to forge snug dens. And still others discover caves to hide away from the biting winter chill. Read more…

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This Fat Bear Week glow up is such an inspiration

sudshr47 October 5, 2018

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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! 

Fat Bear Week continues with some stiff competition, but it seems like the internet has already crowned its fan favorite. 

Please take a moment to appreciate Bear 409, also known as Beadnose, whose pre-hibernation transformation can only be described as thiccer than a Snicker.  Read more…

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Day 3 of Fat Bear Week features a big showdown between two former champs

sudshr47 October 5, 2018

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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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A famous matriarch bear is missing from Fat Bear Week. Where could she be?

sudshr47 October 5, 2018

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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!

A top competitor is missing from this year’s Fat Bear Week contest.

For a fleeting moment in June, rangers spotted Bear 410 — the oldest-known bear at Alaska’s Brooks River — walking up the chilly stream where the eager bears spend months snatching five-pound salmon from the water.  Read more…

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Day 2 of Fat Bear Week pits a scarred, powerful male against a young challenger

sudshr47 October 4, 2018

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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!

Get ready for another day of fat brown bear face-offs.

The second day of the Fat Bear Week competition features two separate matches. The first pits Bear 32 “Chunk” — who in 2017 was the most dominant bear in Alaska’s Brooks River — against a younger, teenage bear. Read more…

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Which fat bear are you? Take this Fat Bear Week quiz to find out

sudshr47 October 4, 2018

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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!

Katmai National Park’s Fat Bear Week contest is now underway, with 13 very large omnivores pitted against each other in a playoff-like bracket. 

Each day, you can place your votes, but have you ever wondered which fat bear you would be if you lived in Katmai?  Read more…

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