Fat Bear Week, a celebration of brown bears’ survival instincts, brought a grisly reminder of the animals’ predatory nature on Monday, when a male bear, 469, killed a female, 402, at Katmai National Park & Preserve in Alaska.
The unsettling scene was captured by a popular live webcam that follows the bears on the Brooks River.
In a statement sent to NPR, the park said, “National parks like Katmai protect not only the wonders of nature, but also the harsh realities. Each bear seen on the webcams is competing with others to survive.”
Being an entire bear being eaten alive by an entire bear must be awful.
Is cannibalism common among bears?
Didn’t 402 win a couple of years ago?
I’m confused, wasn’t this supposed to happen?
Does this mean 469 will be disqualified from the competition? Killing a competitor seems very unsportsmanlike.