Katmai National Park & Preserve's annual Fat Bear Week and its accompanying tournament of crowning a chubby champion for 2022.
Fall, however, is for fat bears -- and for Katmai National Park
The contest is "a way to celebrate the resilience, adaptability and strength of Katmai's brown bears," the park says on its website. And unlike March Madness with separate men's and women's teams, female bears get in on the action in the same contest. The live cam from the river is a popular online feature, garnering more than 900 viewers at 7:45 p.m. ET Tuesday, for example.
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