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For humans, staying warm in the winter often means swapping out flimsy tank-tops for thick parkas. For Alaskan bears, it means eating a jaw-dropping 500lb (225 kg) of fresh salmon. These bulking creatures are the focal point of Fat Bear Week - a highly anticipated online bracket that pits the portly mammals at Alaska's Katmai

Voters decide on the heftiest Katmai brown bear

Only the chunkiest bear will come out on top. Which will it be? Vote now at the Katmai National Parks website!

Were winding down after another busy day here at Shacknews. We had Pokemon, Google, and Mario, so theres a lot to unpack in tonights Evening Reading.

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It's Fat Bear Week 2022. There are a lot of extremely fat bears. But the fattest of them all is the veteran bear 747, who ate thousands of salmon and put on hundreds of pounds this summer.

At least David Montgomery is trending in the right direction.

Public vote for their favourite fat bear as part of an annual competition that celebrates bears gaining weight ahead of their long winter hibernation.

The arrow is pointing up for injured Chicago Bears running back David Montgomery.

The 12 heavyweights have been in training for the big event since emerging from hibernation, foraging on all the salmon and other food nature provides at this park in coastal southwest Alaska.