{"id":608403,"date":"2026-09-22T18:08:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T18:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/608403\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T18:08:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T18:08:22","slug":"fat-bear-week-which-bear-will-put-on-the-most-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/608403\/","title":{"rendered":"Fat Bear Week: Which bear will put on the most weight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">The iconic Fat Bear Week, run by Katmai National Park in Alaska, is returning for its 13th year and will run from 22-29 of September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">Fans can vote online on which brown bear has put on the most weight ahead of their winter hibernation, by comparing photos from early and late summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">Last year, over 1.7 million votes were cast from more than 100 countries to crown the furry chonker champion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">Video by Meiying Wu; produced by Madeline Gerber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The iconic Fat Bear Week, run by Katmai National Park in Alaska, is returning for its 13th year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[111,139,69,147,406],"class_list":["post-608403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}