Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
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Animal news: Who’s the fattest of the Fat Bears?
Backpack! That’s his name. He’s a brown bear who was a candidate in the 2026 Alaska Fattest Bear competition.
I’m not going to copy and paste in a compelling photo of Backpack from the New York Times, lest I get some photo agency coming after me for a lot of money, but I can tell you Backpack is very large. Although the fattest part of him isn’t his back; it’s his understructure, i.e., his massive stomach. Maybe he wears his backpack as a tummy pack.
Whatever. He’s fat.
I’m wondering who went out to Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve with a scale to weigh those bears for Fat Bear Week.
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Tagged Annual Fattest Bear contest, Backpack the Fattest Bear, Katmai National Park and Preserve, New York Times
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Animal news about certain critters
From Harper’s Weekly Review:
The wild rat population of Washington, D.C., was administered birth control, and a woman turned to Reddit to secure an arachnoid sexual partner for her virginal pet tarantula.
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Tagged pet tarantula, rat birth control, Reddit, wild rats
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