{"id":49445,"date":"2025-10-01T16:45:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/49445\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T16:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:45:06","slug":"all-hail-the-new-fat-bear-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/49445\/","title":{"rendered":"All hail the new Fat Bear Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The votes are in, and the winner of Fat Bear Week 2025 is the indomitable Bear 32, also known as Chunk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/10\/7\/23392925\/fat-bear-weeks-fans-katmai-national-park\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/explore.org\/fat-bear-week\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Explore.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Weighing in at around 1,200 pounds, <a href=\"https:\/\/explore.org\/meet-the-bears#h_8491948959651692997209223\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup qnnwq2 _1xwtict9\">Chunk captured voters\u2019 hearts this year with his perseverance<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The brown bears need to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doi.gov\/blog\/everything-you-want-know-about-katmai-national-parks-fat-bears\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The votes are in, and the winner of Fat Bear Week 2025 is the indomitable Bear 32, also&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[242,85,46,43,141,386],"class_list":{"0":"post-49445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}