It's almost time to vote in Alaska's Fat Bear Week tournament.
Fat Bear Week is almost back. But until then, the yearly celebration of the beefy, brown and bristly is getting started with a Fat Bear Jr. contest.
Fat Bear Week doesn't officially start at Katmai National Park and Preserve until Oct. 2, when fans can begin voting online for their favorite ursine behemoths in tournament-style brackets. The annual contest, which drew more than 1.3 million votes last year, is way to celebrate the resiliency of the 2,200 brown bears that live in the preserve on the Alaska Peninsula, which extends from the state's southwest corner toward the Aleutian Islands. The most dedicated fans watch the bears onall summer long as they feast on sockeye salmon returning to the Brooks River.
There's also an emotional favorite: a spring cub of Grazer, last year's Fat Bear champ. The cub's sibling died this summer after it slipped over a small waterfall on the Brooks River and was killed by a dominant adult male known as Chunk, or Bear 32 - an attack captured on the bear cams. Grazer fought Chunk in an effort to save the cub, but it later died.
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