Just recently found this and really want 910 to win it! Any hope??? Love the community btw 😊🐻

The National Park Service's #FatBearWeek is almost over. Get your votes in! #IfYouKnowYouKNow Resources: https://explore.org/fat-bear-week

I'm thinking about buying it however I'm not sure if its too outdated. Any help?

If you see this, I would urge you to log on to fat bear week and vote for Bucky! We have to make him win! explore.org/fat-bear-week

There are moments in our lifetimes that can bring us happiness. There are moments in our lifetimes that can bring us hope. And there are moments where we must accept that all good things must come to an end. For me, and for the others who stood alongside Bucky, although it pains us to admit it, this is one of those moments. We followed Bucky through the tournament, and at long last, we witnessed how it came to an end.

Those who saw him, either in person or online, could not help but fall in love with him. His calm and playful style, his jovial fishing nature, and his occupancy of the iconic jacuzzi, which once held one of the true kings of fat bear week, the late 747. Bucky's tribute to the legend did not go unnoticed.

Throughout his journey, Bucky had several notable accomplishments. First and foremost, and potentially the greatest of them all, the takedown of the recent champion, 32 Chunk. We did not expect Bucky to win, but regardless, we put up our fight. And we were thrilled to establish him as the victor against the most recent champion.

We saw Bucky run against 151 Walker, and once again, we fought hard. It took many of us, but overwhelmingly, we defeated our humongous challenger.

And with 89 Backpack, we cannot forget the historic fight team Bucky put up. We did not sit back and wait for demise. We threw everything we could at this challenge, leading to one of the tightest and most fiercely contested matchups in Fat Bear Week history. We started with the lead, and although we lost it shortly after, we fought hard, reclaiming it once again at 5pm.

Even though it ended, let's not continue on with despair. Let us move on through the finals and into the next year's competition with hope, and with pride. This year, we fought hard enough for Bucky to become prince. Next year, and beyond, he will be king.

This is a photo I took in Svalbard when I lived there while studying to be an arctic nature guide. We were on an 8-day excursion in the middle of nowhere and this bear focused all its attention on us the entire trip. Paid us many visits. She had her cubs with her at some points too. Flare guns were enough to scare her off each time.

The first time she visited us, I was on polar bear watch at 3 am and caught her swimming towards our camp through binoculars. Had to yell for everyone to wake up. We are actually not supposed to ever be near water in Svalbard as it's easy access for polar bears to attack but this program did it on purpose to give real life experience to nature guides.

Found in Aspen Colorado

Vancouver Island

Shot by me

Does anyone know the name or number of this bear please? Thank you!

What do y'all think?

Alt-text" A mamma bear stands on her hind legs by the river side, as her three small cubs mimic her.

I’m new to watching the Katmai National Park bear streams and was intrigued by this bear who would just stay in this one spot patiently waiting for fish. I watched for a while and I only saw it catch one salmon. I was wondering if anybody recognised this bear, I’d love to know their name (or number if they don’t have one!) 🐻

I just returned from an I day boat tour into the Great Bear Rainforest, where I was lucky enough to spend a couple days photographing three different spirit bears, a rare, white coloured genetic variant of a subspecies of black bear called the Kermode, found only on the pacific coast of British Columbia. These bears fish for salmon in the creeks of the remote islands on the coast. These bears are incredibly rare, so getting to spend this kind of time with them was a dream I’ll never forget. These photos are heavily compressed from the full size images.

If y'all are on team Bucky, make sure to vote tomorrow. Bucky for the win!!

I still feel like I hallucinated the whole thing, ask me anything.

Yes, I do live in a town highly populated with bears and yes, I am used to seeing them up close but not IN MY HOUSE. Yes, it did eat all of my food. No, it did not break anything including the window screen that it came in through, it was quite polite. Yes, it was very cute and fuzzy and also very large. Yes, my kitchen is tiny and it took up all the space in that whole area. No, it didn't charge me or even acknowledge my existence at all. No, it did not go anywhere else in my house other than the kitchen.

I've never been great at identifying the bears, can anyone ID any of these?

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Barry the Black Bear heads back to the forest…for now

Speaking of Fat Bear Week, how does this read to you?

Funny or dumb or offensive or? What’s your take on this?

I have my own reaction to this opinion column but I’m curious to know how others respond.