Welcome to Fat Bear Week 2023! Katmai National Park and Preserve’s brown bears spent the summer gorging on 4,500-calorie salmon, and they've transformed into rotund giants, some over 1,000 pounds.

Brown bears eat berries, bulbs, roots, and animal foods like squirrels, insects, and fish. Brown bears are omnivores, though about 90% of their diet consists of plant foods.

What grizzly bears eat — berries ... Seasonal fish migrations impact when and where a grizzly bear can find fish. ... and fawns, sick animals, or old, malnourished animals. They also love raiding ...

Another first-round match pits Bear 903, an 8-year-old male who was given the nickname Gully after he developed a taste for seagulls, against Bear 909, the mother of Bear 909 Jr.

Brown bears eat a wide range of foods, from vegetation like berries and roots to salmon and even larger mammals like moose and caribou, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.

Bears do not usually seek out humans to eat. They usually eat plants, insects, fish, and other smaller animals. Kamchatka brown bears have access to richer food sources such as salmon, pine nuts ...