Morsi, Alaska – Brawny Bruins on the Alaska Peninsula is ready to buy it to know anything that will win the title of Bear this year in the famous annual voting competition known as FAT Bear Week.
The main event that includes Bears for adults begins next week, but First Up Fray is what the National Park Service calls “the fatty cubby appetizers”. Bir Junior voters in Bir Junior can cast their votes until Friday for their favorite teenagers, as the winner progresses to the big offer.
The competition, which began in 2014, aims to show the flexibility of brown bears, which pack pounds in every fall to survive in the harsh winter by overcoming salmon in the Bruges River in and preserving Katmi National Park. People can see the bears Live broadcast cameras.
He also said: “It is really an opportunity for people to think about how the bears remain, what they have to do to survive, and what the ecosystem provides them and looking at their individual success stories as well.” exploration Nature scientist Mike Fitz, who started the competition when he was a goalkeeper in Katmai.
This year was abundant, so that voters could specially expect some physical contestants.
Here is a closer look at the famous online event:
The 12-tank that will be announced on Monday-in the individual style championship, will be shown. All voting is online on www.fatbearweek.orgWith the announcement of the winner on September 30.
The first round features eight bears in four separate competitions to apply to the second round. Four bears receive the first round.
There are about 2,200 brown bear inside Katmai, a 6562 square mile garden (16,997 square kilometers) in the Alaska Peninsula, which extends from the southwestern corner towards the Aleutian islands. To be displayed in the competition, Bears must repeat the main Brox camp area.
In fact, the weight of the bears will be a dangerous and huge task, so it is up to voters to judge the size through the appearance alone. The male bears in Katmai weigh about 700 to 900 pounds (318 kg to 408 kg) in the middle of the summer and can worsen to more than 1000 pounds (454 kg) by September or October, thanks to the search for successful food.
Male bear 1200 pounds (544 kg) is not unusual in Katmi. Others estimated about 1400 pounds (635 kg). Females are about half to two -thirds of the size of adult males.
Fitz said that there are other factors that are not considering.
Voters can consider the challenges that some contestants had to overcome, such as multi -tasking females that protect their young and produce milk for cubs while they are called in the winter themselves.
There is a precedent for Mama to take the prize. Grazer, the Week Weeek champion, defends twice, defeated one of the largest bears in the Bruges River, a piece, last year’s final.
Although the competition is hypothetical, the bears have already fought in the garden months ago. Chunk attacked one of the Grazer Cubs after falling on a waterfall, an attack that was broadcast live. Grazer fought from a piece, but the cub he died later.
Fitz said that Chunk returned to the park this year but returned to the Bruges River in June with a break. The right side of its jaw is loose suspended and will never heal properly.
Perhaps it happened in a battle with another bear. When they attack each other, they target the head and neck, and sometimes they close the jaws. The torque of the lower jaw can collide.
The good news of the piece is that he was already adapted to his new disability and does not seem to have affected his appetite. One of the biggest bears on the river is still.
Brooks Falls is famous for the brown bears that come out of salmon from the air while the fish tries to jump towards the source to reach the hatching land.
This did not happen much this year, as the exceptional salmon reduced the need to compete for fishing spots in the fall.
“We somewhat expect that we will have some of the soles that we have seen in this event,” said Fitz.
FAT Bear JR. will have My family feeling this year.
In the semi -finals on Thursday, CUB 128 Junior will face against a pair of competing cubs together.
CUB 128 Junior is the offspring of the hero twice Grazer and Sibling of the Bear that Chunk killed last year.
You will face the eighties of the last century, the cubs of Bear 803. It is known to be harmful, try to enter vehicles and boats, and play with one of the live broadcast cameras.
Other semi -final siblings of the same spring garbage of the 26.6. 26. Women are smaller and lighter than her brother, 26 male, and a little more quieter. Male is bolder than his sister, which may give him an advantage if food is limited.