Chunk Crowned Fat Bear Week Champion in Record-Breaking Year
TL;DR
32 Chunk, a dominant brown bear with a broken jaw, won Katmai National Park's Fat Bear Week, marking the biggest contest yet with over 1.5 million votes, highlighting the bears' survival strategies and ecosystem importance.
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- ‘Dominant on the river’: 32 Chunk crowned champion in ‘biggest Fat Bear Week yet’ The Guardian
- Fat Bear Week final four: a queen and the three boars KTOO
- Why the Fat Bear Week bears are rounder than ever in 2025 National Geographic
- Chunk, a 1,200-pound bear with a broken jaw, wins Alaska’s popular Fat Bear Week contest AP News
- Fat Bear Week has a new champion. And he’s a total ‘Chunk.’ The Washington Post
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