The votes are in, and the winner of Fats Bear Week 2025 is the indomitable Bear 32, also referred to as Chunk.
The public votes for his or her favourite brown bear annually within the March Insanity-style event held by Katmai Nationwide Park and Protect in partnership with the nonprofit Katmai Conservancy and on-line portal Discover.org.
Weighing in at round 1,200 kilos, Chunk captured voters’ hearts this yr together with his perseverance. He confirmed as much as catch salmon on the Brooks River with a damaged jaw that’s therapeutic however possible now a long-term incapacity.
Chunk captured voters’ hearts this yr together with his perseverance
The brown bears have to pack on the kilos every fall, gaining as a lot as 4 kilos a day. That will get them by the winter, after they would possibly lose as a lot as a 3rd of their saved physique fats.