It Is That Time Of The Year Again,

Fat Bear Week, 

above Bear 747 in the Fat Bear Week contest in Alaska's Katmai National Park, Naomi Boak/Courtesy of NPS Photos, towards winter bears pile on the pounds, to build up for the winter, we have featured the contest before, the contest is light-hearted in spirit, it often spawns memes and celebrates the bears’ impressive ability to transform so rapidly, but this year’s contest has gone a bit mustang, bear No. 469, I guess thought that bear No. 402, look tasty and killed it last Monday morning! worse still it all happened live on webcams at Katmai National Park, park spokesperson Matt Johnson said in a statement, “National parks like Katmai protect not only the wonders of nature, but also the harsh realities,”  also Mike Fitz, explore.org’s resident naturalist commented, “The risks that they face are real. Their lives can be hard, and their deaths can be painful, each bear seen on the webcams is competing with others to survive, we love to celebrate the success of bears with full stomachs and ample body fat, but the ferocity of bears is real,” the contest has been delayed, but after the delay the brackets were revealed Tuesday afternoon, voting opened Wednesday on explore.org. More than 1.3 million votes were cast last year, for the full article have a look here.