People can vote on the fattest bear and voting will continue until Oct. 10.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The fairest and fattest of them all has been officially decided: 128 Grazer was crowned queen of Katmai National Park and Preserve's
The mammoth mother bear snatched the win as easily as she snatches salmon at Brooks Falls. She soared past 32 Chunk for an easy win in the finals with an impressive 108,321 votes to Chunk's 23,134,Grazer is a fierce mama bear who has successfully raised two litters of cubs, and will often preemptively confront and attack much larger bears, according to the National Park Service, even large and dominant adult males.
One of Grazer's offspring, 428, was also a competitor in this year's Fat Bear Week as she navigated the river as an independent bear for the first time. The gutsy girl grounded the guy with a gut. 32 Chunk, proved his prominent posterior was worthy of a whopping win. But in the end, Chunk got Grazered.Chunk, the runner-up, roared into the finals by leveling up his confidence this year.
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