Welcome to Fat Bear Week 2021!Katmai National Park and Her PS PartnerPreserve’s brown bears spent the summer gorging on 4,500-calorie salmon, and they've transformed into rotund giants, some over 1,000 pounds. The Alaskan park is holding its annual playoff-like competition for the fattest of the fat bears (you canvote onlinebetween Sept. 29 through Oct. 5). Mashable will be following all the ursine activity.
Otis is an aging bear, but a profoundly wise one.
The Katmai bear, numbered 480, is around a quarter-century old with missing teeth. He arrived at the salmon-rich Brooks River, home to the livestreamed explore.org webcams, a month or so late this year. He looked gaunt.
But Otis, famously successful at catching fish with a tried-and-true, unflashy fishing strategy, rapidly persevered. Over the course of around seven weeks, he transformed from a bear with a visible ribcage to one of the fattest of the fat bears.
"He's certainly made up for lost time," Mike Fitz, a former Katmai park ranger and currently a resident naturalist for explore.org, told Mashable. "He's gained an incredible amount of body mass in about seven weeks."
All the fat bears have impressive summer transformations. But the images below show his particularly stunning 2021 change.
Otis' impressive summer transformation. Credit: n. Boak / C. Spencer / Nps / explore.org This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
Otis clearly knows how to survive the long, harsh Alaskan winter hibernation, where bears subsist off their fat stores. An old brown bear is 20, and Otis has already far eclipsed that. He has a stationary approach to fishing, where he sits for hours in the same spot beneath the waterfall, as opposed to dashing in the water or standing atop the waterfall for leaping salmon like many other bears. Some might interpret this as Otis acting lethargic or disengaged.
But no. It's wise. He wastes little energy while catching bounties of calorie-rich fish over the long run.
"I like to describe Otis as a master of energy economics."
"Otis is extremely patient when fishing," Fitz previously told Mashable in 2019. "I like to describe Otis as a master of energy economics. He uses his patience and experience to make a huge profit in calories while expending little energy."
Otis' profit is often huge. He's a three-time Fat Bear Week champion, though other formidable bears have bested him over the past few years.
SEE ALSO: The female fat bear that's as dominant as the big, bad male bearsOtis' first Fat Bear Week match-up is happening Thursday, Sept. 30. You can vote on fatbearweek.org, or this Woobox link if the primary site — due to voting popularity impacting the page — is down.
Your vote matters.
Your 'wrong person' texts may be linked to Myanmar warlord
Inappropriate by Sadie Stein
Sadie Stein on Philip Larkin’s Poem “The Trees”
Sadie Stein on Philip Larkin’s Poem “The Trees”
Best speaker deal: Save $30 on the JBL Clip 5
Read Zadie Smith’s Story from Our Spring Issue
Peter Matthiessen, 1927
Turn out the Lights and Watch Joško Marušić’s Fisheye
Google Pixel Buds Pro 2: $40 off at Amazon
Recapping Dante: Canto 22, or Don’t Play Too Close to the Tar Pits by Alexander Aciman
'The Last of Us' Season 2, episode 5: The spores are here!
Listen to Frederick Seidel read his poem “For Holly Andersen”
Electronic Musician Andrew Pekler’s Latest Album
Give a Warm Welcome to Our Newest Issue by Dan Piepenbring
Amazon Pet Day: All the best deals
Kent Johnson’s / Araki Yasusada’s / Tosa Motokiyu’s “Mad Daughter and Big
John Oliver gleefully weighs in on the Trump
John Oliver gleefully weighs in on the Trump
NYT Strands hints, answers for May 18
The Morning News Roundup for March 24, 2014
Listening for Ms. Lucille by Aracelis GirmayThe Art of Distance No. 21 by The Paris ReviewBest smartphone deal: Get the Samsung Galazy Z Fold 5 for $300 offAmazon Smart Air Quality Monitor now $55 — Jan. 2024 dealsThe Art of Distance No. 17 by The Paris ReviewRedux: Thunder, They Told Her by The Paris ReviewUnlucky Numbers by Michael LaPointe'The Brothers Sun' review: Michelle Yeoh kicks butt in this fun tale of family crimeThe Many Voices of Bobbie Louise Hawkins by Laird Hunt and Eleni SikelianosBest smartphone deal: Get the Samsung Galazy Z Fold 5 for $300 offThe Landscape That Made Me by Melissa FalivenoKim Kardashian's onceJersey Jerry's 36Donald Hall’s Amanuensis by Wesley McNairPoets on Couches: Reading Max Jacob by Suzanne Buffam and Srikanth ReddySamsung Galaxy S24: Release date, price, Ultra features, and more5+ Apple products that will likely come out in 2024Where Does the Sky End? by Nina MacLaughlinThe Flatterer and the Chatterer by Marjorie GarberJersey Jerry's 36 Apple, Amazon among tech companies facing NRA The 13 best tweets of the week, including Golden Corral, depression, and 'Borat 2' Reporter rocks suit and headband combo on national TV and it rules Florida man sues Twitter in a desperate bid to post again Taika Waititi's endless napping pics should be your inspiration in life It is hard to look away from this Russian senator's hair Kim Kardashian shares first photo of her baby Chicago What we bought in September 2021: Cat backpacks, dog tents, and more George Costanza's two 'Seinfeld' dads didn't make the jump to Netflix Honestly, I don't love this new iMessage feature in iOS 15 Tokyo 2020 Olympics mascot designs are revealed and they are cute as heck It's time to grow up and move on in 'On My Block' Season 4 NASA snaps a vivid image of an extremely energetic galaxy My dude Kenneth accidentally took a $1,600 Uber ride Carlton the cat is running for office, and he's the purr How to change your iPhone's app icons Powerful photos capture young girl marveling over Michelle Obama portrait Has LaCroix fallen from internet grace? 'Only Murders in the Building' made its best episode with no verbal dialogue Predictive text helped make a pretty great Gwenyth Paltrow Goop parody
1.9779s , 10131.59375 kb
Copyright © 2025 Powered by 【Her PS Partner】,Exquisite Information Network