🐻🏔️ Maintenance workers in #Alaska recorded an early #spring sighting of a dominant male brown #bear known as #Chunk. Despite a permanent jaw injury sustained last season, the 545 kg (1,200 lbs) bear remains a healthy and prominent figure in the #BrooksRiver #ecosystem.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/fat-bear-week-champion-chunk-alaska/

#fatbearweek #katmai #wildlife #bears #nature #biology #conservation #science #mammals #ecology

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#FatBearWeek2025 #FatBearWeek

If we had a #FatBearWeek on Vancouver Island like they have in #KatmaiNP I think this bear would make it to the final.😁

#bears #wildlife #photography #VancouverIsland #BritishColumbia #Canada #VancouverIslandWildlife