A trail camera in Canada’s Yukon Territory has captured footage featuring an extremely plump grizzly bear that seems beyond ready for hibernation.
“This rotund grizzly sure knows how to prep for the big sleep that awaits,” David Troup of Yukon Wildlife Cams stated this week via Facebook, in reference to the impending hibernation season. “While not the biggest grizzly I’ve captured on camera, definitely the fattest, which is meant in the most admirable of ways.”
Troup’s footage (posted below) shows the massive bruin strolling past the motion-sensor camera with sleepy eyes that almost seem closed. (Please click here if video player doesn’t appear.)
Understandably, Troup’s followers were impressed enough to chime in.
One suggested that the bear is pregnant, to which Troup replied, “Nope, just fat.”
Another remarked that the bear could have been a contender in the annual Fat Bear Week competition that features coastal brown bears of the Brooks River in Alaska’s Katmai National Park.
Another comment: “Great footage, you can see he/she is very content, even looking happy.”
Troup’s reply: “It looks like its eyes are even closed as it walks along.”
The top comment refers to lyrics in the 1978 song by Queen, “Fat Bottomed Girls.” The revised verse: “Fat bottom bears they make this rocking world go round.”
