Fat Bear Week, the annual celebration of nature organized by the Katmai National Park and Preserve in Hawaii , is coming to an end on Tuesday, 29 September.
The Fat Bear Week 2026 started on September 22. Voting for the semi-final contest will conclude Friday, September 28 evening. The semi-final of the Fat Bear Week 2026 features two contests. The first one is between two unnamed female bears, Bear #132 and Bear #910. The voting for the Fat Bear Week 2026 finals will start at 12pm EDT and end at 9pm EDT on Tuesday, September 29. Google Search has come up with a unique tribute to celebrate the final two days of Fat Bear Week 2026. Alaska is home to an estimated 30,000–35,000 brown bears, roughly half the brown bears in North America.
The awareness-raising program about the brown bears of Alaska is presented in the form of a competition where votes are cast for the fattest bear. The competition has reached the semifinal stage with four bears left in the contest. And the voting for the final will happen Tuesday, with the winner declared later in the evening. The second contest is between two male bears, Bucky Dent and Backpack. Votes can be cast on the website, explore.org/fat-bear-week . Upon searching Fat Bear Week on the Google search box, an interactive Alaskan brown bear appears that can be fed salmon. The more the bear is fed, the fatter it becomes. The interactive doodle has been received positively by enthusiasts of the fat bear week. If you google fat bear week a bear shows up and you can feed him salmon and he gets fatter and fatter. I love him,” one X user wrote . “Here’s a funny start to your day. Alaska’s brown bears are vital to the ecosystem, especially around salmon-rich rivers. By catching and consuming salmon, they move nutrients from rivers into forests and soil, while their feeding helps sustain scavengers and other wildlife. The state has one of the world’s largest brown bear populations, with particularly high densities in Katmai and Kodiak.
My college son told me about it. Click “fat bear” on Google and then click the fish,” wrote another.
Brown Alaskan bears bulk up before the winter as they hibernate. Voting for the semifinal contest starts at 12pm EDT and ends at 9pm EDT on Monday.
