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All that salmon adds up, and the 2023 Fat Bear Week champ has the flab to prove it!

Wild animals have evolved mechanisms similar to our own to regulate their food intake and determine when they're full.

Wild animals have evolved mechanisms similar to our own to regulate their food intake and determine when they're full.

A winner in this year’s Fat Bear Week has been crowned, and she’s a “gutsy girl.” The bear in Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve is described as “thicker than a bowl of oatmeal” in a post on the park’s Facebook account. The bear, 128 Grazer, is a mother who has raised two litters of…

Voting is over in Katmai National Park & Preserve’s annual Fat Bear Week contest, in which the public picks from 12 big ‘n’ bulky bears in an online brackets-style tournament.

Brown bear beauty 128 Grazer took the crown in this years Fat Bear Week. She snagged the title from last years winner Bear 747 and crushed the runner-up Chunk 34 by nearly 85,000 votes.

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She ate the most salmon!

Voting is over in Katmai National Park & Preserve’s annual Fat Bear Week contest, in which the public picks from 12 big ‘n’ bulky bears in an online brackets-style tournament.

The National Park Service tournament, an annual social media phenomenon, pulled in over 1.3 million voters this year after Congress pulled through with a funding bill.