only around 12 compete in Fat Bear Week. Before their months-long salmon feast, male bears typically weigh 700 to 900 pounds.

The 2022 edition of Fat Bear Week was unlike any other ... The weeklong celebration of bears bulking up on salmon at the Katmai National Park and Preserve as hibernation and winter near had ...

Fat Bear Week takes place each October in Katmai National Park, an Alaskan preserve that is home to not only bears and salmon, but caribou, lynxes, wolves, and more. All the bears in the game are ...

In the months prior to Fat Bear Week, the public are able to watch livestreams of the bears fishing for salmon along the Brooks River. Highlights are posted to social media, including on TikTok ...