It’s Fat Bear Week! Millions Are Voting on Chubby Alaskan Bears, But This Is a Matter of Survival

32 Chunk voted as Fat Bear Week 2025 winner after 2 years as runner-up

As one of the largest bears that resides along Brooks River at Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska, 32 Chunk was estimated to be over 1,200 pounds.

Fat Bear week sets final four with beefy bruins like 128 Grazer and 32 Chunk

THE competition for the fattest bear is heating up as the final four fat bears have been announced.The National Park Service at Alaska’s Katmai Nati

It’s Fat Bear Week! Millions Are Voting on Chubby Alaskan Bears, But This Is a Matter of Survival

The most gripping week of the bear calendar has arrived. The Fat Bear Week is an annual online competition hosted by Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska. This event, which began in 2014 as a one-day celebration, has since grown into a phenomenon among bear enthusiasts worldwide. Bears are paired in single elimination match […]

Fat Bear Week final four: a queen and the three boars

(Image courtesy of Explore.org) Good morning, fat bear fanatics! Here we are at the semifinals of Fat Bear Week and everybody’s fired up. Who’s with me?? Let’s recap last week’s matches: Regrettably, neither Beady sister (909 and 910) could land their paunches against 128 Grazer and 856. Despite being truly, deeply, unfathomably fat, each sow separately lost their spot on the line. They weren’t necessarily upsets though we (me and about 23,000 v…

Meet the cuddly (but deadly) champions of Fat Bear Week

It's Fat Bear Week, y'all! During this special week, which runs September 23 through 30, the world turns its attention to the gorgeous brown bears who live at Brooks River in Katmai National Park in Alaska. These beauties "get fat to survive" and Fat Bear Week is all about celebrating their hard work at getting prepped for their long winter hibernation. — Read the rest The post Meet the cuddly (but deadly) champions of Fat Bear Week appeared fir…