Let the chunk-off begin.
MARK THIESSEN Associated PressThe contest celebrates the resiliency of the 2,200 brown bears that live in the preserve on the Alaska Peninsula.Voting starts Wednesday in the annual Fat Bear Week contest at Alaska's Katmai National Park and Preserve, with viewers picking their favorite among a dozen brown bears fattened up to survive the winter.
"National parks like Katmai protect not only the wonders of nature, but also the harsh realities," park spokesperson Matt Johnson said in a statement. "Each bear seen on the webcams is competing with others to survive.", which streams the uncensored bear cameras and helps organize Fat Bear Week, on Tuesday hosted a live conversation about the death. Katmai National Park ranger Sarah Bruce said it wasn't known why the bears started fighting.
Adult male brown bears typically weigh 600 to 900 pounds in mid-summer. By the time they are ready to hibernate after feasting on migrating and spawning salmon - each eats as many as 30 fish per day - large males can weigh well over 1,000 pounds . Females are about one-third smaller.Bear 909 Jr., who last week won the Fat Bear Junior competition for the second time, will face Bear 519, a young female in the first round.
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