🐻 Grazer
Really called Bear 128
Brown bear · Katmai National Park, Alaska
Lives in Bear Ridge
Back-to-back Fat Bear Week champion, 2023 and 2024. A famously fierce mother who has taken on males twice her size, and one of the most efficient anglers on the river. Fat Bear Week pulls over a million votes a year, and she is the name everyone knows.
What they do
Stands in the falls and snatches salmon clean out of the air.
Champion. Terrifying mother. Absolutely enormous by October, on purpose.
Latest
- 2026Fat Bear Week runs each autumn. She has won it twice.
Lore
- ★Fat Bear Week is a real bracket run by the National Park Service and explore.org, and it drew over 1.5 million votes in 2025
- ★Getting fat is the whole point - the bears who put on the most weight are the ones who survive hibernation
- ★She is known for aggressively defending her cubs against much larger male bears
Helping the real one
💛 Support Grazer via Katmai ConservancyThe nonprofit partner of Katmai National Park, where she lives This opens their own official page. Money never touches this site.
Where this comes from
- U.S. National Park Service, Katmai Fat Bear Week champions: 128 Grazer, 2023 and 2024 ↗
- NBC News Grazer wins Alaska's Fat Bear Week 2023 ↗
- Katmai Conservancy Bear 128 Grazer profile, first identified 2009 ↗
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