The elderly bear has faced many challenges when it comes to hunting fish due to his slower agility Digital News Writer, PEOPLE Otis the Bear is a four-time champion of Fat Bear Week! The Alaskan ...

480 Otis took his fourth Fat Bear title by vanquishing 151 Walker, a younger bear who has impressive size but lacks the do-you-believe-in-miracles comeback story of 480 Otis.

After a tough week of competition, 480 Otis defeated fellow big boy 151 Walker, also known as the "Baron of Beardonkadonk," to become an unprecedented four-time Fat Bear Week champion. 480 Otis ...

It’s official: 480 Otis is 2021’s burliest bear. Bow down. On Tuesday night, 480 Otis was declared the winner of Fat Bear Week, an online competition held to celebrate brown bears’ pre ...

Otis is now a four-time champion, having won the inaugural contest, in 2014, as well as in 2016 and 2017. This year, Otis earned 51,230 votes in the final round to beat bear 151 Walker’s 44,834 ...

Four of the dependably big bears get a bye week, like Otis and one of his main rivals, 747, who happens to share an ID number turned nickname with the popular Boeing airliner. “He got that ...

Otis is no stranger to Fat Bear Week championships. Since the park started the contest in 2014, he's won three times. But other impressively fat bears have bested him over the last few years ...

Wherever he’s gone, Otis, the Fattest of the Fat Bears, will continue to be a super-size inspiration to his fans, us included. So goodnight, sweet prince. We’ll go have a snack and take a nap ...

For Alaskan bears, getting fat is the name of the game as they spend the fall bulking up in preparation for their winter torpor. And when it comes to size, there are few bears as chunky as Otis.

JASON: DRUMROLL PLEASE, A WINNER HAS BEEN CROWNED FOR FAT BEAR WEEK. IT’S OTIS. CONGRATULAONTIS, OTIS. THIS IS THE FOURTH TIME HE HAS WON. HE DEFEATED WALKER AFTER PUBLIC VOTING YESTEAYRD. NO ...

Missing it would be un-bear-able. The annual “Fat Bear Week” of Katmai, Alaska, has officially begun.The weeklong festival, which began in 2014, is a celebration of the resilience ...