{"id":1326,"date":"2025-10-01T05:10:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T01:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/all-hail-the-new-fat-bear-champion\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T05:10:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T01:10:31","slug":"all-hail-the-new-fat-bear-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/all-hail-the-new-fat-bear-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"All hail the new Fat Bear Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tBear #32, also known as Chunk, has won Fat Bear Week. | Photo: Christine Loberg via National Park Service\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n

The votes are in, and the winner of Fat Bear Week 2025 is the indomitable Bear 32, also known as Chunk.<\/p>\n

The public votes<\/a> for their favorite brown bear each year in the March Madness-style tournament held by Katmai National Park and Preserve in partnership with the nonprofit Katmai Conservancy and online portal Explore.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Weighing in at around 1,200 pounds, Chunk<\/a> captured voters\u2019 hearts this year with his perseverance. He showed up to catch salmon at the Brooks River with a broken jaw that\u2019s healing but likely now a long-term disability.<\/p>\n

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Chunk captured voters\u2019 hearts this year with his perseverance<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n

The brown bears need to pack on the pounds each fall<\/a>, gaining as much as four pounds a day. That gets them through the winter, when they might lose as much as a third of their stored body fat.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s contenders got extra fat and healthy thanks to an enormous salmon run<\/a>. On top of having one of the biggest populations of brown bears in the world \u2014\u00a0around 2,200 \u2014 Katmai National Park says<\/a> it\u2019s also blessed with one of the healthiest wild sockeye salmon runs left on our warming world despite record-breaking high temperatures threatening previous years.<\/a><\/p>\n

Even with Fat Bear Week coming to a close \u2014 narrowly avoiding a government shutdown<\/a> \u2014 you can still catch the action on explore.org<\/a>\u2019s live Brown Bear Cam<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bear #32, also known as Chunk, has won Fat Bear Week. | Photo: Christine Loberg via National Park Service The […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}