How the fat bears are beamed from remote Alaska to the world

Get the Full StoryWelcome to Fat Bear Week 2020! Katmai National Park and Preserve s brown bears spent the summer gorging on 4,500-calorie salmon, and they've transformed into rotund giants, some over 1,000 pounds. The park is holding its annual playoff-like competition for the fattest of the fat bears you can vote online between Sept. 30 and Oct. 6 . Mashable will be following all the ursine activity.

No roads lead to the fat bears. No telephone poles. No power lines.

It's a remote world visitors access via floatplanes that land on a glacial lake in Katmai National Park and Preserve. How, then, does livestreamed footage of the bears reliably make its way from a salmon-filled river to viewers all over the planet? Read more...More about Animals, Fat Bear Week, Bear Cam, Fat Bear Week, and Science

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