Hot girl summer is all but over , but juicy bear downfall has arrived .
The hotties of Katmai National Park and Preserve are about to face off asFat Bear Weekbegins on Wednesday . And frankly , I am here for it . In rally torrent that is our world untangle , we all need to grab onto something to stay afloat . In my case , it ’s the erotic love grip of the bodacious brown bears of the Brooks River .
Fat Bear Week is a competition where the net gets to vote on the fattest bear of Alaska ’s Katmai National Park and Preserve . But above all , it is also a solemnization of all thing “ fat ” and “ bear . ”
Gif: exploreorg (Twitter)
In spring , the bear of Katmai come forth from hibernation as shadows of their late fall selves , having spent all wintertime snoozing and live off the fatty tissue they stored up . Once hibernation is over , the bears mesh in a race against time to pack on the Irish pound in readying for winter . The girthy ursines have spent all summertime chowing down on Salmon River , berry , and whatever else they can get their claws on . Anyone with an cyberspace connection has been able to watch their shift on webcams tend by explore.org , and now we all have a fortune to vote on who has become the fattest bear of the Brooks River .
Introducing the one , the only , the gloriously fat Holly – for your#FatBearWeekconsideration.pic.twitter.com / h73njEYDp8
— explore.org ( @exploreorg)September 30 , 2019
The car park has set up a individual - elimination wall bracket , like to March Madness but , you have sex , with fat bears . Folks can vote on Facebook for their preferent bears , and a achiever will be crown next Tuesday — or , as it ’s known on the Gregorian calendar , Fat Bear Tuesday . This marks the 5th year the park has opened up the competition to the macrocosm ( in 2014 , ranger began fete it by permit Mungo Park visitors vote ) .
Beadnose , last year ’s winnerand indorser to the hot girl summer ethos before it was a thing , is n’t part of this class ’s rival . She has n’t been go out this summertime , which in the wilds of Alaska is usually a sign she ’s gone to that salmon - filled river in the sky . But the competition does include monster bears of years past , including the capably named 747 and Chunk as well as threepeat genius Otis .
Bear butts courtesy of@KatmaiNPSpic.twitter.com/UjuWHTgCVQ
— explore.org ( @exploreorg)September 28 , 2019
Katmai scientists will also do a more scientific assessment beyond the internet vote ( shocking , I know ) , conducting 3D scans of the bear to gauge just how fat they really are . But while science is smashing and all , Fat Bear Week is really about what you feel in your heart .
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