Christmas fare betimes for the dark-brown bears of the Katmai National Park and Preserve ( KNPP ) in Alaska this twelvemonth , in the form of a Salmon River boot . The annual “ Fat Bear Week ” does n’t kick off until October but an unseasonably successful salmon rivulet has seen the dark-brown bears bulk up onwards of docket .
Fat Bear Week is a reason for solemnization as each class browned bear must put on a suited amount of weightiness if they ’re to make it through the wintertime and awaken healthy from their hibernation . The KNPP tweeted in 2018 that during peak season the bears can win 1.8 kilo ( 4 pounds ) a day in the pursuit of portliness , so it seems the bear this twelvemonth have been smashing it out the park . prediction already put forward that give the bears ' overachieve there will be a new master over last year ’s roundest contestant , an adult call Holly who wasdescribed as“the shape and color of a toasted marshmallow ” .
" All indication are that we ’re buy the farm to rig a fresh record book , " Curry Cunningham , a fisheries ecologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks who researches salmon runs in Bristol Bay , toldMashable .
The promising bear BMIs are thanks to what is potential to be another rugged phonograph recording as the 2020 red salmon salmon run seems to be the best since reliable platter began in 1963 . Annually these fish make their way up the Naknek River to Katmai ’s Brooks River , where the brownish bear banquet set about . The previous record saw 3.5 million salmon headspring up the river in 1991 but account from July show 2020 has already seen more than 3.4 million red salmon salmon make the same journeying .
It ’s easy to see how the bear are make such # gainz when the calorific consumption of some catches seems astonishingly minimum :
Come October , the KNPP ’s annual competition will oppose their portly occupant against one another in inviting the populace to vote on which chubster should take the crown . The week - farseeing dish contest will see the bears compete for final shoes and with names like Lefty , Otis , and Wayne Brother it ’s almost time to choose your fighter .
Forget fat shaming , this is all about fat faming as we observe bears doing what bears do best , all the while giving themselves the safe chances of survive the harsh Alaskan wintertime . “ She is fat . She is fabulous . She is 435 Holly,”praisedthe Katmai National Park and Preserve accompany last year ’s competition . “ All hail Holly whose tidy heft will help her hibernate until the bound . Long hold out the queen mole rat of Corpulence ! ”
You better watch out , Queen Holly . The 2020 contention is beefing up .
[ H / T : Mashable ]
