Fat Bear Week is officially underway at the Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska. So, take a break from all of the stressful stuff going on in the world for a little while and check out some of the most famous bears in U.S. history. In fact, we encourage you to kick back, relax, and pop on a stream to check out this year’s candidates for Fat Bear Week.

For the uninitiated, Fat Bear Week takes place every year in late September and early October. (It's like Shark Week, but more wholesome.) At the beginning of the year, the brown bears at Katmai leave hibernation and are photographed with their svelte post-hibernation bods. As you can imagine, a whole winter of sleeping and not eating makes for a very skinny bear . Over the course of the season, the bears eat and eat, and th

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