"Brown bear’s nearly 100,000 votes leads him to victory despite suffering for most of season with broken jaw"

"“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."

Lois Beckett reports for the Guardian September 30, 2025. [2]

SEE ALSO:

"Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Fat Bear Week" (Inside Climate News)
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04102025/fat-bear-week/ [3]

Katmai Bear Cam (Explore)
https://explore.org/livecams/brown-bears/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls [4]