Fat Bear Week in Alaska has amassed a huge following. Last year, over a million people across 100 countries voted for their favorite Fat Bear, according to the National Park Service.

The most gripping week of the bear calendar has arrived. The Fat Bear Week is an annual online competition hosted by Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska. This event, which began in 2014 as a ...

After gorging all summer on sockeye salmon, the portliest brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula will battle it out to see who ...

Top Contenders Battle It Out For Fat Bear Week's Ultimate Prize. Alaska's tubbiest ursines have been fighting it out once ...

Credit: C Loberg/A Monaco/T Carmack/NPS/Katmai Conservancy/Explore.org/Cover Images Alaska’s tubbiest ursines have been fighting it out once again as Fat Bear Week reaches its climax on Monday and ...

The most gripping week of the bear calendar has arrived. The Fat Bear Week is an annual online competition hosted by Katmai ...

Fat Bear Week is an annual tradition run by the Katmai National Park in Alaska alongside media organization Explore.

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Forget March Madness — this is Fat Bear Week madness, complete with brackets, merch and cheering fans from across the globe.

On today’s show, Alaska Public Media reporter Ava White joins Kimberly to make us smarter about Fat Bear Week and the issues ...

The annual Fat Bear Week is underway in Alaska as people vote on which brown bear has become the fattest in preparation of ...