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It's Fat Bear Week - but our fascination with bears is timeless

It's Fat Bear Week - but our fascination with bears is timeless

It's Been a Minute vor 2 Jahren

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Every year, the Katmai National Park in Alaska puts on a March
Madness-style bracket of all the fattest bears in their park. It's
a celebration of fatness, because a fat bear ahead of hibernation
means a healthy bear come spring. This competition is popular —
there were over a million votes tallied last year — and it speaks
to a larger cultural obsession with bears. In honor of Fat Bear
Week, Host Brittany Luse journeys through time to unpack what bears
mean to us — and why they're family, friend and foe all at once.
And later, an exploration of how the queer community emulates
bearness — and what the symbol of the animal can mean to
them.

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