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FAT BEAR WEEK 2023

How to Participate: Select your choice by clicking or tapping on your preferred
bear photo. Then enter your email where prompted. Select ‘I am not a robot’ then
submit. You know that you have successfully voted if you see the total votes for
each bear.

POLL 1

POLL 2

Date Matchups & Results Fat Bear Jr

September 28 910 Yearling: 17,537
909 Junior: 12,119 806 Spring Cub: 20,557
901's Spring Cubs: 6.279 September 29 Finals 910 Yearling: 10,780
806 Spring Cub: 18,148 Fat Bear Week October 4 806 Spring cub: 129,674
428: 21,776 402: 24,216
901: 115,392 October 5 128 Grazer:
151 Walker: 284 Electra:
164 Bucky Dent: October 6

806 Spring Cub:
32 Chunk:

480 Otis:
901:

October 7

October 8

NO VOTING

October 9

October 10

Finals

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Choose the fattest bear of the year! Some of the largest brown bears on Earth
make their home at Brooks River in Katmai National Park, Alaska. Brown bears get
fat to survive and Fat Bear Week is an annual tournament celebrating their
success in preparation for winter hibernation.

Fat Bear Week 2023 is October 4 - October 10. Your vote decides who is the
fattest of the fat. Matchups will be open for voting between 12 - 9 p.m.
Eastern (9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Pacific). Download your bracket to predict your own fat
bear winner.

This is a single elimination tournament. For each match-up, vote for the bear
you believe best exemplifies fatness. The bear with the most votes advances to
the next round. Only one will be crowned champion of Fat Bear Week. Learn more
about the history of Fat Bear Week.

Schedule of Events: Unless otherwise noted, all live events take place on
explore.org’s Brooks Live Chat Channel.

Attention Teachers! Join Fat Bear Week in the Classroom. Take the explore.org
bear cams into the classroom and consider the different ways that bears find
success in Katmai's challenging environment. Check out Katmai National Park’s
extension activities and introduce the bears of Katmai to your students. Then
submit your students’ questions by September 26. Find the video answers on
Katmai National Park’s website starting on October 3.

Bearcam Play-by-Play and Fat Bear Junior Preview: September 26 at 7 p.m. Eastern
/ 4 p.m. Pacific.
Which bear cubs are competing for the Fat Bear Junior title? Find out during the
special reveal. Watch on explore.org’s Brooks Live Chat Channel channel.

Fat Bear Junior: September 28 – 29
For these young and maturing bears, it is win and you're in! Who lives the
largest among the youngsters? During this warm-up event for Fat Bear Week, you
choose the cub who will compete in the annual Fat Bear Week tournament. Vote in
Fat Bear Junior on FatBearWeek.org

Fat Bear Week Contestants and Bracket Reveal: October 2 at 7 p.m. Eastern / 4
p.m. Pacific.
Their road to greatness began months ago. After a summer-long effort, brown
bears at Brooks River in Katmai National Park have reached peak fat. How did
they do it and what challenges did they face along the way? Those are a couple
of the questions we’ll answer as we reveal the contenders and the bracket for
the 2023 Fat Bear Week tournament. Watch on explore.org’s Brooks Live Chat
channel.

Welcome to Fat Bear Week Live Chat: October 4 at 7 p.m. Eastern / 4 p.m.
Pacific.
Winter arrives quickly in Katmai and bears must get fat to survive it. In the
bear world, fat exemplifies success. It is the fuel that powers their ability to
endure winter hibernation as well as the key to their reproductive success.
Learn more about the importance of fat to the survival of this year’s Fat Bear
Week contestants with explore.org’s resident naturalist Mike Fitz and rangers
from Katmai National Park. Watch on explore.org’s Brooks Live Chat channel.

A Very Fat Bear Play-by-Play: October 5 at 7 p.m. Eastern / 4 p.m. Pacific
Join National Park Service rangers and explore.org’s resident naturalist Mike
Fitz for live commentary on the bear and salmon activity at Brooks River in
Katmai National Park, Alaska. Watch on the Brooks Live Chat channel.

Final Fat Four: October 9
The merely chubby have been winnowed away and the Final Fat Four are left
standing (or eating). Vote in the semifinal matches to determine which bears
meet in the 2023 Fat Bear Tuesday championship match. Vote on FatBearWeek.org

Fat Bear Tuesday: October 10 at 7 p.m. Eastern / 4 p.m. Pacific
Only two bears remain standing in Fat Bear Week, the fattest tournament on
Earth. You choose the winner on Fat Bear Tuesday. Explore the lives of the two
final contestants and the importance fat to brown bears with explore.org’s
resident naturalist Mike Fitz and Katmai National Park rangers. Watch on
explore.org’s Brooks Live Chat channel and vote for your champion bear on
FatBearWeek.org starting at 12 p.m. Eastern.

Brown Bear Celebration and Fundraiser: October 14 at 4 p.m. Eastern / 1 p.m.
Pacific.
With another Fat Bear Week in the history books and one of the United States’
largest national parks filled with fat, successful bears, it’s time to celebrate
the summer that was and look toward the future of Katmai National Park and
Preserve. Join explore.org’s resident naturalist Mike Fitz for this celebration
of Katmai National Park, its famous brown bears, remarkable salmon, and the
Katmai Conservancy’s efforts to support the park. Watch on explore.org’s Brooks
Live Chat channel.

Meet the Bears of Fat Bear Week

Who should I vote for?

Many factors lead to success in brown bears. Consider the tremendous growth
spurts experienced by younger bears, for example. Cubs and subadult (teenage)
bears grow proportionally more each year than even the biggest adults. Or, maybe
you want to weigh your vote toward bears with extenuating circumstances. Mother
bears must feed themselves and their cubs so the family can survive winter. An
older bear can have difficulty finding access to its preferred fishing spots due
to competition with larger and younger bears. You can also vote for the bear you
think is the simply the largest and fattest. In short, Fat Bear Week is a
subjective competition. Be sure to campaign for your favorite candidate using
#FatBearWeek on social media. Download your blank bracket to predict your own
fat bear winner.

Why are fat bears important?

Katmai’s brown bears are fattest in late summer and early fall. It is the
end-product of a summer-long effort to satisfy their profound hunger and prepare
for winter hibernation. During hibernation, bears do not eat or drink and can
lose one-third of their body weight. Their winter survival depends on
accumulating ample fat reserves before entering the den.

To get fat, bears gorge on the richest and most accessible foods they can find.
In Katmai National Park that often means salmon. Dozens of bears gather at
Brooks River to feast on salmon from late June until mid October. Perhaps no
other river on Earth offers bears the chance to feed on salmon for so long.

Fat bears are successful bears. They exemplify the richness of Katmai National
Park and Bristol Bay, Alaska, a wild region that is home to more brown bears
than people and the largest, healthiest runs of sockeye salmon left on the
planet.

In Alaska's Fat Bear Week election, there's no party like a salmon partyr NPR
Fat Bear Week is back and it's the best one yet Mashable
Thousands Tune In to Watch Otis, Four-Time Champ of ‘Fat Bear Week,’ on Livecam
Wall Street Journal
Fat Bear Week has arrived. Meet the chunky contenders. Washington Post

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