It's Fat Bear Week 2020! Here's the fat bears we think could take it home this year
It’s here. It’s finally here. Hold on to your calorically-rich salmon reserves, because Fat Bear Week 2020 has arrived
For those who missed last year’s rundown, allow us to bring you up to speed: Fat Bear Week—a.k.a. the most wonderful time of the year—comes courtesy of Katmai National Park & Preserve, and is their voter-driven competition to decide the chunkiest resident along southwestern Alaska’s Brooks River. As far as we’re concerned, each one of this year’s twelve contenders are champions in their own right.
But, much like Highlander, there can only be one reigning tub of 2020. With this in mind, it is without further ado that we present to you our three favorites to win 2020's Fat Bear Week:
1) Bear No. 480, aka “Otis”
Otis has a history of being a champion, so we know he’s got the gumption. He also took the Fat Bear Crown back in 2016, so we assume he’s been gunning for a re-coronation ever since. “Congratulations, you big fatty,” Katmai National Park’s official Twitter page announced in that simpler time that was pre-2016 election America. Just look at those hungry eyes—those are the sullen, cold blooded, pre-hibernation eyes of a champion.
