A new queen has emerged at Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska – a defensive single mama bear known for being "one of the fattest" at Brooks River. Explore.org and park officials ...

The annual celebration showcases bears who are preparing for hibernation at Katmai National Park in Alaska NPS Photo/F. Jimenez We have a winner! The champion of Fat Bear Week 2023 has officially ...

FILE - In this photo provided by the National Park Service is Grazer, the winner of the 2023 Fat Bear Contest, at Katmai National Park, Alaska on Sept. 14, 2023.

Oct. 9 (UPI) --Alaska's Katmai National Park and Preserve announced a bear known as Grazer has been named the winner of Fat Bear Week for a second consecutive year. The park said on social media ...

Bear 128, also known as "Grazer," was crowned "Fat Bear 2023 Champion" after racking up more than 108,000 votes against bear 32, or "Chunk," who only had a little over 23,000 votes. This battle of ...

Behold the winner of Fat Bear Week 2023, the two-time bear mom, Grazer. The National Parks Service runs annual votes to crown its fattest bears. A record 1,382,783 total votes were cast this year ...

After going head to head with the bear who killed her cub, Grazer has been crowned the champion of Fat Bear Week 2024 for the second year in a row! The annual winner of the competition, which was ...

Voters worldwide will decide the winner of Katmai National Park’s Fat Bear Week, ... The finalists in this year's competition are 128 Grazer and 32 Chunk.

Then there’s Grazer, one of the most protective mother bears in the park. Although she did not raise a litter this spring, she has put her defensive energy into accumulating fat on her body.

All of Katmai National Park and Preserve’s brown bears are winners, but there can only be one Fat Bear Week 2023 champion. See who's in the running.

In this photo provided by the National Park Service is Grazer, the winner of the 2023 Fat Bear Contest, at Katmai National Park, Alaska on Sept. 14, 2023.

Grazer beat Chunk by more than 40,000 votes cast by fans watching live cameras of Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve. 6 This is an image of the winner, Grazer, on September 12, 2024.