1 00:00:01,320 --> 00:00:05,360 Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation. Please Amanda, tell me all about 2 00:00:05,720 --> 00:00:09,280 Speaker 1: the Fat Bear Wheel. Oh, this is fabulous, and we're 3 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:10,719 Speaker 1: going to put the pictures of all the fat bears 4 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:12,720 Speaker 1: up on our social secrets. See what we're talking about. 5 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:15,160 Speaker 1: You know, just when the Golden Bachelor is about to start, 6 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 1: we also get this. So every fall, which is every autumn, 7 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:25,160 Speaker 1: brown bears pack on the pounds before hibernation. This is 8 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 1: in the Katmai National Park and it turns into a 9 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:30,040 Speaker 1: global competition. I'm looking at the footage of these bears, 10 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:35,159 Speaker 1: photos of them before and after. They look like enormous walruses. 11 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:39,480 Speaker 1: Before and after they're quite slender. So Fat Bear Week 12 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:42,880 Speaker 1: is an annual tournament celebrating their success as they prepare 13 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:46,159 Speaker 1: for hibernation. Fans all around the world vote for their 14 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:51,159 Speaker 1: favorite chunky bear. It's a single elimination tournament. For each matchup, 15 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:53,680 Speaker 1: you vote for the bear that you believe best exemplifies 16 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:56,680 Speaker 1: fatness and success in brown bears, and the bear with 17 00:00:56,720 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 1: the most votes goes to the next round, et cetera, 18 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:01,920 Speaker 1: et cetera. Only one will be round Fat Bear Week Champion. 19 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:04,880 Speaker 1: So it's not the fattest bear, it's the cutest fattest bear, 20 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:08,840 Speaker 1: the hot favorite fattest bear. Let me tell you about gee. 21 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:10,680 Speaker 1: The photos from before and after, have a look at that. 22 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:14,160 Speaker 1: They're quite extraordinary. Last year's winner do you want to know? 23 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:16,959 Speaker 1: The last year's winner of the twenty twenty four Fat 24 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:20,959 Speaker 1: Bear Week competition was one two eight Grazer, a mother bear. 25 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:24,400 Speaker 1: She also won the previous year. She beat her rival 26 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 1: thirty two Chunk in the final round by quite a 27 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 1: significant margin. She got over seventy one thousand votes. Chunk 28 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:35,000 Speaker 1: got just over thirty thousand. But what makes this victory 29 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:39,959 Speaker 1: even sweeter or more notable was that Graser's cub had 30 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:42,920 Speaker 1: been killed by Chunk earlier in the summer. Oh goodness, 31 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 1: so it's a full situation going on. Also, you know 32 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 1: why I'm fascinated by this tombian, Well, it's I have 33 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 1: done some research. I'd always heard that a bear shove 34 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 1: something that I thought was called a tombian up its 35 00:01:57,160 --> 00:01:59,360 Speaker 1: bottom before it highberdates to stop the insects and stuff 36 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:02,480 Speaker 1: getting in it sleeps a little bit of research from 37 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:05,800 Speaker 1: GPT has told me that it's not actually a tombian. 38 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:09,119 Speaker 1: It's a tappen and it happens naturally. They don't put 39 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:15,080 Speaker 1: anything up there. It happens naturally. So during hibernation, bears 40 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:18,640 Speaker 1: don't eat, drink, or go to the toilet. Over time, 41 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:24,080 Speaker 1: undergested food, sloughed intestinal skills, cells, hair, and bacteria build 42 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:26,919 Speaker 1: up and form what's called a fecal plug. This plug 43 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:31,239 Speaker 1: blocks the intestine so nothing passes out or in while 44 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 1: the bear is sleeping, so it's not inserted, it's formed inside. 45 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 1: And then at the end of hibernation, when the spring 46 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:40,919 Speaker 1: comes and the bear wakes up, it sounds like champagne. 47 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 1: Corks are being popped right around the glade. And well, 48 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:50,360 Speaker 1: they've lost all the weight while they've been sleeping, so 49 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:52,320 Speaker 1: they put this weight on to sustain them because they 50 00:02:52,360 --> 00:03:00,080 Speaker 1: don't eat the man shake or something because they sleep. Yeah, well, 51 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:02,959 Speaker 1: why doesn't that happen to us when we go to sleep. Well, 52 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:05,959 Speaker 1: I don't think you're sleeping long enough. Obviously, fecal plug, 53 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:09,480 Speaker 1: A fecal plug. Get onto it all. They'll be playing 54 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:11,280 Speaker 1: at Slip and Not Fest this year.