The 2022 edition of Fat Bear Week was unlike any other, and even with a voting scandal, 747 was crowned this year's champion of chonk – the bear's second title in three years. The weeklong ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Let the chunk-off begin ... a bear so large he was given the number of the equally massive airplane, Bear 747. One of the biggest bears ate 42 salmon In the other ...

Why it matters: Fat Bear Week, the contest where the public can pick their favorite fattened-up bear at Alaska's Katmai National ... But two-time winner 747, described as a "giant among bears ...

In the autumn, as the bears prepare to hunker down for winter again, it’s up to the public to decide which bear in Alaska's Katmai ... of Fat Bear Week was Bear 747 (Bear Force One), who weighed ...