Fat Bear Week 2025: Alaska's Hefty Heroes Return
Katmai National Park's beloved Fat Bear Week is back for 2025, celebrating the brown bears' incredible pre-hibernation transformation in a public vote for the champion of corpulence.
Katmai National Park's beloved Fat Bear Week is back for 2025, celebrating the brown bears' incredible pre-hibernation transformation in a public vote for the champion of corpulence.
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