It's almost time to vote in Alaska's Fat Bear Week tournament.
An Alaska national park's yearly celebration of the beefy, brown and bristly is getting underway as some of the chunkiest bears on the planet fatten up for their long winter slumber.
But on Tuesday organizers revealed the four cub contestants in this week's Fat Bear Jr. contest - with the "chubby champ charging on to face the corpulent competition" in the adult bracket, as Naomi Boak of the nonprofit Katmai Conservancy put it during the livestreamed announcement. This year's contestants for Fat Bear Jr. include some familiar muzzles: Both the 2022 and 2023 junior champs are up for a repeat; they remain eligible because they still meet the criteria for being considered a cub, including remaining with a sow. Most cubs stay with their mother for about 2 1/2 years, but the 2022 Fat Bear Jr. winner, known as 909 Jr., who has remained with an aunt, is almost 4 years old.
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.
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