“The merely chubby have been winnowed away,” a naturalist intoned. “We are left with a clash of titans.”
After a record-breaking week of public voting, Katmai national park and preserve in Alaska has announced the winner of its “biggest Fat Bear Week yet”.
32 Chunk, frequently described as “the most dominant brown bear on the river”, won the fatness competition despite suffering for most of the season from a broken jaw, which locals suspected came from battling with another male over a female.
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The annual bracket-style competition pits different wild bears against each other, based on before-and-after photos of the bears’ weight gain as they prepare for winter, as well as the bears’ personalities and ursine accomplishments.
32 Chunk’s ability to eat huge quantities of salmon and grow fat despi
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