Biologists with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game reported this week that a resident brown bear, currently asleep on Chilly Ridge, had just broken the regional record by hitting the ‘snooze’ button on his alarm clock for the six hundredth consecutive time.
“Bear 681, better known as Fishy McBreath, is truly a marathon hibernator,” said state biologist and alarm-clock technician Harold Nerdington. “We originally started outfitting the radio…