All About Fat Bear Week, A Competition To Be The Chonkiest Brown Bear

After gorging all summer on sockeye salmon, the portliest brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula will battle it out to see who will be named the fattest of them all in the wildly popular online voting ...

Alaska’s Fat Bear Week kicks off with online voting to crown the most oversized ursine

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — After gorging all summer on sockeye salmon, the portliest brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula will battle it out to see who will be named the fattest of them all in the wildly ...

Como Zoo welcomes new polar bear named Astra

The zoo hopes the 4-year-old female polar bear will eventually breed with one of its male bears as part of a larger effort to ...
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Henry Vilas Zoo to welcome male polar bear from Chicago zoo

MADISON, Wis. -- A male polar bear will soon make the short journey north from Chicago to the Henry Vilas Zoo. The Lincoln ...

Outdoors | Early bear seasons, deer muzzleloader, next on state's big game calendar

Black bear season begins locally this Saturday in wildlife management units nearest Johnstown, with archery hunters getting first crack at both male and female bruins for eight consecutive days.

Astra, Como Zoo’s new polar bear, has arrived

Como Park Zoo & Conservatory has a new resident. Astra, a four-year-old, 700-pound female polar bear, arrived Thursday night from Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma, Wash. Upon arrival, the zoo ...