Katmai National Park’s “Fat Bear Week,” a fun internet event in which fans vote for their favorite grizzly bear in the Alaskan preserve’s habitat, was postponed Monday due to a fatal incident in which one of the contestants brutally killed another over a salmon fishing spot, CBS News reports.
“Earlier today, a bear killed another bear on the river. It was caught live on the webcams and we thought, well, we can’t go ahead with our Fat Bear Week bracket reveal without addressing this situation first,” said biologist Mike Fritz in a conversation on Monday’s livestream held in place of the scheduled unveiling. The bracket will instead be unveiled at 7PM EDT on Tuesday.
Bear 469’s savage murder of Bear 402 on a Brooks River waterfall was captured on live video. It’s not clear how the Fat Bear Week bracket will be reshuffled following the brutal ursinocide, though it’d make sense if they match 469 and 402 up and then declare 469 the winner by simple default.