53 h. ago Chunk, the heavyweight bear with a broken jaw, finally wins Fat Bear Week

Fans choose their favourite bear based on looks or backstory.

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61 h. ago ‘Dominant on the river’: 32 Chunk crowned champion in ‘biggest Fat Bear Week yet’

Brown bear’s nearly 100,000 votes leads him to victory despite suffering for most of season with broken jaw“The merely chubby have been winnowed away,” a naturalist intoned. “We are left with a clash of titans.”After a record-breaking week of public voting, Katmai national park and preserve in Alaska has announced the winner of its “biggest Fat Bear Week yet”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago What to know about Fat Bear Week, a competition to be the chonkiest brown bear

The brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula have been gorging all summer on an abundant sockeye salmon run

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2 w. ago What to know about Fat Bear Week, and the brawny bruins ready to battle for the title

The annual Fat Bear Week featuring gluttonous brown bears at Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve is back

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3 w. ago Bigger than the average bear! Greedy grizzlies are celebrated as Fat Bear Week announces this year's most impressive beasts preparing to enter hibernation

The much-loved contest pits the brown bears of Alaska 's Katmai National Park & Preserve against each other to well they bulk up for winter hibernation.

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3 w. ago Fat Bear Week is coming – and the competition will be chunky

The brown bears of Alaska’s Katmai National Park can reach a hefty 1,200 pounds as they prepare to hibernate in November

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