Minnesota bears are consumed by eating in the fall in quest to put on incredible weight

Andrew Tri is fond of working analogies.
As the Minnesota DNR’s bear project leader, Tri uses them as a way to educate the public. Take retired Olympic swimmer and multiple gold medalist Michael Phelps. When Phelps was in training, his eating habits were the stuff of legend. He regularly consumed 10,000 calories per day, much of them from junk food, because he was burning so many calories in the pool.
Tri has used the Phelps anecdote during public presentations to illustrate the black bear feeding frenzy called hyperphagia.