This week a different bear lost its footing at the same location, in Katmai National Park, while trying to intercept sockeye salmon as they forged upriver toward spawning grounds. As the bear slid ...

A single sockeye salmon can contain around 4,000 calories, putting Chunk in a strong position to claim the title of Fat Bear. Mike Fitz, a former ranger at Katmai park and currently a resident ...

See why this Alaskan national park offers the world’s top bear-watching experience. A brown bear searches for salmon along a creek in Alaska’s Katmai ... a small group, surrounded by bears ...

A brown bear snags a sockeye salmon in mid-air on August 11, 2023 at Brooks Falls, Alaska within the Katmai National Park and Preserve. The bears feast in large numbers at the falls between July ...

A brown bear in Katmai National Park and Preserve catching leaping sockeye salmon atop the Brooks River waterfall. It's a popular ursine fishing strategy. Credit: Rebecca Harding / Getty Images ...

For the Alaskan bears of Katmai National Park and Preserve ... And the bear still has a strong salmon-consuming month ahead. A single sockeye salmon can pack around 4,000 calories.

the fat bears shouldn’t get all the credit. Fitz says Katmai’s sockeye salmon runs are the healthiest and largest in the world. Without them, there’d be no Fat Bear Week. “Brooks River is ...

Many salmon populations are “hanging on by a thread,” notes Fitz. For the Katmai bears, they are lucky as the Brooks River sockeye population had three straight years of record breaking runs.

They picked the bear they believe best exemplifies winter preparedness by the fat they have accumulated over the summer feeding on the sockeye salmon that ... parks like Katmai protect not only ...

Every fall, the brown bears of Katmai National Park in Alaska gather at Brooks Falls to catch and eat the migrating sockeye salmon to their hearts content ahead of winter hibernation. While the ...