Eager viewers across the globe tuned in to watch brown bears fishing for salmon in Katmai National Park yesterday in the lead up to Fat Bear Week, but things took a grizzly turn when two bruins ended up in an on-screen battle to the death.
Around 9:30 a.m. on Monday morning, the Kat River View camera picked up two bears known as 469 (male) and 402 (female) getting into a fight in the river. The vicious altercation lasted several minutes before 469 dragged the lifeless body of 402 out of the water and began to tear at her body before disappearing with her off-screen. Grizzly bears are known to fight aggressively when competing for food and will eat their own kind so the incident is considered natural behavior.
