Last year, more than 800,000 people weighed in during Fat Bear Week, crowning Otis, an enormous, dimpled ursine, Fat Bear champion for the fourth time. The fat bears can advance our understanding of diabetes, muscle atrophy, inactivity and the ingenuity of evolution. The remarkable hibernating bearSuperficially, hibernating bears seem passive and inert. Fat from hibernating bears became insulin sensitive and genetically similar to fat from the active season and vice versa. correction A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that Otis had won the Fat Bear championship three times.

Source: Washington Post October 06, 2022 07:24 UTC