Extra Very Important Post: It's Fat Bear Week!
A way to limber up your voting arm this fall. So much more fun than the midterms.
The fattest bears in Katmai National Park in Alaska need your votes!
The bears are consuming over 30,000 calories a day right now (this time of increased appetite and fattening up is called hyperphagia and is not necessarily the salmon’s favorite time of year). Getting ready for the chilly winter snooze is no joke - the bears are very busy indeed.
And you get to vote with thousands of others people around the world to choose the Fattest Bear of All. The final is on Friday, so be sure to check in and play the brackets this week :-)
YES, this is important.
Because, that’s why.