Footage shows the brown bears at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center in Portage enjoying prize-winning cabbages, cauliflowers and pumpkins from fair. This year, the first place pumpkin weighed 727.3kg (over 1,603lb) and the winning cabbage weighed in at 39.08kg (more than 86lb). Every year, organizers generously offer up to 450kg (992lb) of the remaining vegetables to the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center to feed their six bears - which eat an average of 14kg (31lb) of produce per day. Brown bears tend to be solitary animals and are typically found in the forests and mountains of North America, Europe, and Asia. The bears will spend the winter months dormant in their dens and will feed on the body fat they have built up over the summer and autumn months.

Source: The Nation September 29, 2021 14:00 UTC