See why this Alaskan national park offers the world’s top bear-watching experience. A brown bear searches for salmon along a creek in Alaska’s Katmai National Park. The park supports one of ...

(From National Park Service) Over the last several months, brown bears have been putting on pounds at Katmai ... in raising cubs.” There’s also Chunk, the most dominant bear on the river ...

One of the prime spots that brown bears flock to is Brooks River, in Alaska's Katmai National Park. There, bears compete for spots to get all the best salmon while also teaching young cubs how to ...

Katmai National Park and Preserve has shared a charming video of two brown bears reuniting after a long separation, each with a young cub in tow ... known for its large bear population, and ...

Brown bear cubs follow their mother up a creek in ... This remote bay in Katmai National Park attracts large numbers of the photogenic animals each fall, as they gather to fish for salmon in ...

In fact, one of the cubs, "Bear 428," was even entered into ... for their annual winter hibernation, according to Katmai National Park. The brown bears are now in prime shape to enter hibernation ...

After emerging from their dens scrawny and starving in the spring, the brown bears of Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve ... up to compete in Fat Bear Week, Katmai’s annual autumnal ...

The competition is a celebration of the resilience of brown bears ... of the 2023 Fat Bear Contest, at Katmai National Park, Alaska on Sept. 14, 2023. Last year, Grazer's cub was attacked by ...

“Fat Bear Week is always a celebration of the success of the bears,” Naomi Boak, a media ranger at Katmai, told USA TODAY. “Not just the big boys, but the sows with cubs, the young teenage ...

A brown bear in Katmai National Park (Courtesy ... brown bears with the help of livestream cameras in the park. It focuses on first-year cubs and yearlings, or bears that are about 18 months ...