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Chunk looking chunky successful a erstwhile twelvemonth of Fat Bear Week. (E. Johnston/NPS)
America's astir keenly awaited carnal contention has travel to its corpulent conclusion, with Chunk named the victor of this year's Fat Bear Week.
The tremendous beast chewed his mode done thousands of kilograms (pounds) of salmon successful Alaska's Katmai National Park to beryllium voted the chubbiest carnivore successful the tongue-in-cheek contest, which highlights the creatures' mentation for months of hibernation.
The carnivore – who had nary thought helium was competing – bushed retired a stiff situation from two-time victor Grazer, denying her an unprecedented three-peat of which she was besides wholly unaware.
Meet your FAT BEAR WEEK 2025 champion.
Chunk the Hunk. The Chunkster. 32 Chunk.
All hail the caller king of Brooks River 👑 pic.twitter.com/GMaGePDZDO
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Hundreds of thousands of votes were formed by radical each implicit the world, who compared before-and-after pictures of the animals successful a bid of head-to-head ballots.
Before and aft photos of Chunk, the victor of Fat Bear Week 2025. (C. Loberg, T. Cormack, Candice Rusch/explore.org)The contention began successful 2014, aiming to rise consciousness of brownish bears and their situation successful Alaska, arsenic good arsenic the risks they look from quality activity.
Around 2,000 bears successful the parkland commencement chubbing up successful precocious summertime and aboriginal fall.
They tin devour up to 100 pounds (45 kilograms) of salmon a time arsenic they hole for 5 months of hibernation.
One of the biggest questions we get during #FatBearWeek is, “How bash you measurement the bears?”
So, the unpaid who pulls the shortest instrumentality is handed a bath scale... pic.twitter.com/oGxn5kX2lS
During the heavy sleep, the animals seldom aftermath to eat, drink, oregon adjacent spell to the toilet, emerging famished – and a batch thinner – successful the spring.
