12 at Katmai National Park in Alaska ... cub from her third litter placed second two weeks ago in the Fat Bear Junior contest. Chunk is perhaps the largest bear on the river, with narrow-set ...

The annual contest started in 2014 ... a week after one of the contestants was fatally mauled by a rival bear at Alaska's ...

Katmai National Park - a sprawling eight million acre reserve in Alaska - is poking fun at the process by again hosting their annual "Fat Bear Week". The week-long event, which encourages fans to ...

NEW YORK (WPIX) – Who is the chunkiest brown bear of them all ... Boak of the nonprofit Katmai Conservancy put it during the ...

The game isn’t subtle about its real-life source material. Fat Bear Week takes place each October in Katmai National Park, an Alaskan preserve that is home to not only bears and salmon ...

But in Alaska, the start of October can only mean one thing: Fat Bear Week. At Katmai National Park and Preserve, the brown bears have been steadily eating salmon to prepare for their months-long ...

In this excerpt from a chapter titled “The Chonkiest of the Chonky,” Grange heads to Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska shortly before Fat Bear Week, a wildly popular contest created in 2014.