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 Explore.org.
Weighing in at round 1,200 kilos, Chunk captured voters’ hearts this 12 months together with his perseverance. He confirmed as much as catch salmon on the Brooks River with a damaged jaw that’s therapeutic however seemingly now a long-term incapacity.
Chunk captured voters’ hearts this 12 months together with his perseverance
The brown bears have to pack on the pounds each fall, gaining as a lot as 4 kilos a day. That will get them via the winter, once they may lose as a lot as a 3rd of their saved physique fats.
