Welcome to Fat Bear Week 2019! Katmai National Park's bears spent the summer gorging on 4,500-calorie salmon, and they've transformed into rotund giants, some over 1,000 pounds. The park is holding its annual playoff-like competition for the fattest of the fat bears (you can vote online between Oct. 2 and Oct. 8), and Mashable will be following the ursine activity.
Bear 503 should have been dead.
The now seven-year-old young adult male bear, who grew fat enough this summer for Katmai National Park rangers to include him in the 2019 Fat Bear Week competition, found himself in dire straits in the summer of 2014. As a cub, he clung to a tree and wailed into Alaska's tranquil, boundless air. He was helpless, motherless, and abandoned. Read more...
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