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When it comes to packing on the pounds to survive an Alaska winter, this year’s undisputed champ is Grazer. The brown mama bear has won this year's Fat Bear Week at Alaska's Katmai National Park. Grazer had no problems dominating the finals of the bracket-style tournament that's become a fan favorite. Fans overwhelmingly chose Grazer over her opponent in the finals, Chunk. The annual contest drew more than 1.3 million votes in the week-long tourney. The contest is meant to celebrate the resiliency of the brown bears that live on the preserve on the Alaska Peninsula.

When it comes to packing on the pounds to survive an Alaska winter, this year’s undisputed champ is Grazer. The brown mama bear has won this year's Fat Bear Week at Alaska's Katmai National Park. Grazer had no problems dominating the finals of the bracket-style tournament that's become a fan favorite. Fans overwhelmingly chose Grazer over her opponent in the finals, Chunk. The annual contest drew more than 1.3 million votes in the week-long tourney. The contest is meant to celebrate the resiliency of the brown bears that live on the preserve on the Alaska Peninsula.

When it comes to packing on the pounds to survive an Alaska winter, this year’s undisputed champ is Grazer. The brown mama bear has won this year's Fat Bear Week at Alaska's Katmai National Park. Grazer had no problems dominating the finals of the bracket-style tournament that's become a fan favorite. Fans overwhelmingly chose Grazer over her opponent in the finals, Chunk. The annual contest drew more than 1.3 million votes in the week-long tourney. The contest is meant to celebrate the resiliency of the brown bears that live on the preserve on the Alaska Peninsula.

Bear 128, nicknamed Grazer, is one of around 2,200 brown bears living at Katmai National Park in Alaska. The dominant mother bear - known to attack alpha males - was voted the winner of the annual Fat Bear Week competition, thrashing her rival, the aptly-named runner-up, Chunk.

If you go down in the woods today you're sure of a very big surprise if you encounter the aptly named Grazer. She is a bear who has just been...