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Katmai's salmon-stuffed giants are back, and this year the bracket swells to sixteen bears after a record cub boom at Brooks Camp. Reigning champ 32 Chunk defends the crown against upstart 164 Bucky Dent, and the Brooks River cams are already glorious.
A short-spined wild raccoon shaped like a furry dinner roll stretches across a sidewalk and then absolutely sends it over a fence. Eight million views, a mural, a bobblehead, and an honorary UW degree later, he is still out there living his best round life.
An orphaned baby monkey at Ichikawa City Zoo clings to an IKEA orangutan plush the keepers gave him as a stand-in mother, and forty million people cried about it. The update is the good part: he has started making actual monkey friends.
A newborn nilgai antelope makes his on-camera debut, all knees and ears and zero coordination. It's the kind of clip you watch three times before you remember you have a job.
A pet duck from a Mexico City drink stand put on a national team jersey, went nuclear online during the World Cup, and ended up at a presidential press briefing. The video of him waddling into the spotlight is exactly as absurd as it sounds.
