Fat Bear Week Celebrates Bears’ Pre-Hibernation Weight Gain

There’s a competition heating up Alaska. The annual Fat Bear Week has all eyes on these furry chonks to see which one will gain the most weight over the coming weeks. The brown bears at Katmai National Park and Preserve have an appetite for salmon, specifically wild salmon caught from the Brooks river. A little over 100 bears feast from this river. Rangers promise that no bears, or their feelings, will be hurt. Inside Edition Digital’s Mara Montalbano has more.