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Fat Bear Week champion crowned as Alaska’s biggest bear revealed
The winner of Fat Bear Week has been crowned. The much-loved contest pits the brown bears of Alaska’s Katmai National Park & Preserve against each other as they bulk up for winter hibernation. This year the public vote chose Chunk (also known as Bear 32) as their champion with 96,
The bracket for Fat Bear Week 2025 has been revealed, and 12 bears at Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska are looking for votes from all over the world — but only one will be crowned the champion of the fat bears.
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Alaska's Fat Bear week is more than a bit of fun—for the animals, size is a matter of survival
The most gripping week of the bear calendar has arrived. The Fat Bear Week is an annual online competition hosted by Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska. This event, which began in 2014 as a one-day celebration,
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — After gorging all summer on sockeye salmon, the portliest brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula will battle it out to see who will be named the fattest of them all in the wildly popular online voting contest called Fat Bear Week.