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Fat Bear Week

Welcome to Fat Bear Week 2022! Katmai National Park and Preserve’s brown bears spent the summer gorging on 4,500-calorie salmon, and they've transformed into rotund giants, some over 1,000 pounds. The Alaskan park is holding its annual playoff-like competition for the fattest of the fat bears (you can vote online(opens in a new tab) between Oct.5 through Oct. 11). Mashable will be following all the ursine activity.

The colossal bear 747 in Katmai National Park and Preserve's Brooks River.

Incredible Fat Bear Week champ is more than just the fattest bear

a group of bears walking in Katmai National Park and Preserve

Park rangers saw something unprecedented in this year's fat bears

The fat bears sense the world in an extraordinary way

Latest

This is Fat Bear Week's fattest bear

"The size of a double-wide refrigerator."

10/07/2022

By Mark Kaufman

Fat Bear Week is back and it's the best one yet

"This year the tournament is pretty wide open."

10/06/2022

By Mark Kaufman

This fat bear's transformation is absolutely stunning

Surpassing expectations.

10/06/2022

By Mark Kaufman

How many fish do the fat bears eat?

The answer is stunning.

10/06/2022

By Mark Kaufman

What's Fat Bear Week?

"Each bear faces its own challenges in order to gain the body mass necessary to survive."

10/05/2022

By Mark Kaufman

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