Chubby champ: Fat Bear Week crowns winner


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This image provided by the National Park Service shows bear 856 at the Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska on Sept. 13, 2025. — A Monaco/National Park Service via AP

America's most keenly awaited animal competition has come to its corpulent conclusion, with Chunk named the winner of this year's Fat Bear Week.

The enormous beast chewed his way through thousands of kilograms (pounds) of salmon in Alaska's Katmai National Park to be voted the chubbiest bear in the tongue-in-cheek contest, which highlights the creatures' preparation for months of hibernation.

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