Fat Bear Week

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While we're filming this, it is Fat Bear Week for those that choose to celebrate and participate like I do, like Alex does.

That means so many things.

No, it doesn't.

Fat Bear Week means one thing.

It is Fat Bear Week and you vote.

And we did.

We voted on the finals today.

All right.

Recently, it was Fat Bear Week.

You see every fall when the salmon run ends and brown bears have to face the coming winter.

They pack on some pounds.

Am I celebrating Fat Bear Week? I think I've celebrated Fat Bear Month in September.

Oh, my.

Not much working out happening here in the basement recording podcast.

Bear 89, better known as Backpack, is the fat bear.

We've got a museum, we've got a conservancy.

And so if you've ever voted for the fat bear contest up at cat, my conservancy, you have used infinite giving in that donation process.

So honored to serve those guys up there and love the fat bear contest they do every year.

I mean, fat bear in September, early October.

It's a thing now.

I love it so much.

The Katmai National Park webcam, which livestreams bears catching salmon at Brooks Falls, draws millions of online viewers each year and has become one of the most popular wildlife cameras in the world.

Fat Bear Week, an annual online event run by Katmai National Park.

in which the public votes for the bear that has gained the most weight before hibernation, has become a viral cultural phenomenon, drawing millions of votes.

The event was created in 2014 as a playful way to engage the public with bear conservation.

and it has been covered by major media outlets around the world.

In 2023, over 1 million votes were cast in Fat Bear Week, and the event generated significant media coverage that introduced bear ecology to audiences who might never have engaged with it otherwise.

The economic value of a single bear in a popular viewing area can be calculated over its lifetime, and researchers have estimated that a frequently viewed bear at Brooks Falls generates far more revenue alive, through tourism, than it ever could as a hunted animal.

Bear hunting remains legal and regulated in many jurisdictions, and hunters argue that well-managed hunting provides conservation funding and helps control populations in areas where bears conflict with humans or livestock.

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And my husband is obsessed with Fat Bear Week.

Oh,

God, I just love it so much.

dude.

Did you see the thing where it was like Fat Bear Week? And there was like a bear.

Oh, dude.

Yeah, there was a bear that was voted like the fattest bear.

But also during Fat Bear Week, if you Googled it, there was a little mini game where you fed a bear fish.

Oh, I just cartoon bear.

I'm on the website right now.

It weighs more than 1,000 pounds.

It has been crowned champion of Fat Bear Week.

Oh, it won? Backpack won? Shout out.

Backpack the Bear won Fat Bear Week at Katmai National Park.

Yeah, fair.

The competition is a genuinely serious annual vote celebrating bears getting gloriously enormous before hibernation.