What is the biggest bear killed on record?

The world’s record Alaska brown bear (Ursos arctos middendorffi) scored 30 12/16 and was taken near Kodiak’s Karluk Lake in late May 1952. The immense bear was shot by Roy R. Lindsley, who was a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employee based in Kodiak.

What is the world’s fattest bear?

Polls have closed in Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve, and the fattest bear of the year is… 480 Otis, a three-time champion of chonk.

Who was the fattest bear in 2020?

The brown bear was named the winner of the annual contest in which people vote for their favorite chunky bear at Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska.

How much did bear 747 weigh?

Last year’s Fat Bear Week winner, Bear 747 (pictured above), is competing again this year, and he may be the bear to beat. In September 2020, he weighed an estimated 1,400 pounds (636 kilograms), according to explore.org, and he’s at least as big this year.

How big was the biggest Kodiak bear ever killed?

The largest bear ever killed in North America was from Kodiak Island, with a total skull size of 78.1 cm (30.7 in), and eight of the top 10 brown bears listed in the Boone and Crockett record book are from Kodiak.

How old is bear 747?

(He’s around 20, which is older for a brown bear. Bear 747, however, is a similar age). New bear cam footage caught the colossal bear 747 — the winner of last year’s Fat Bear Week contest and long the largest, fattest bear on the cams — asserting his dominance over bear 856.

How old is 747 bear?

Who won Fat bear 2021?

480 Otis
(CNN) — A generously girthed brown bear by the name of 480 Otis is again the winner of Fat Bear Week, the fourth time this ursine wonder has claimed the crown.

How old is 747 the bear?

How much weight did 480 Otis gain?

As Katmai said Tuesday, to celebrate the crown, Otis was “still chowing down” like a true champion. Brown bears can gain up to 4 pounds a day, and Otis was estimated at 900 pounds in 2019, The New York Times notes.

Where is Otis the bear?

Even though Otis is missing teeth and might be the oldest of Katmai’s famous fat bears (at some 25 years of age), his fishing prowess still enabled him to fatten up in 2021. Otis even arrived at Katmai’s salmon-filled Brooks River late this summer.

Is the fat bear real?

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. The Alaskan park is holding its annual playoff-like competition for the fattest of the fat bears (you can vote online between Sept.

How old is 480 Otis?

480 Otis, who is believed to be around 25 years old, emerged from hibernation looking very thin and facing health problems. But he deftly navigated both inter-bear relationships and a salmon-rich river to put on much-needed weight.

How old is bear 480?

around 25 years old
480 Otis, who is believed to be around 25 years old, emerged from hibernation looking very thin and facing health problems. But he deftly navigated both inter-bear relationships and a salmon-rich river to put on much-needed weight.

What is the fattest grizzly bear?

Beefy brown bear 480 Otis has been named the winner of Alaska’s popular Fat Bear Week contest, an annual competition comparing the pre-hibernation weight gain of the largest inhabitants of Katmai national park in the south-west of the state.