The champion of chonk 🐻 The 2022 edition of Fat Bear Week was unlike any other, and even with a voting scandal that rocked southwest Alaska, 747 was crowned this year's winner, marking the bear's second title in three years. The week-long celebration of bears bulking up on salmon at the Katmai National Park and Preserve as hibernation and winter near had fans across the world voting on which bear they thought was the true "titan of tonnage." 747, "the lard-layered Leviathan with powerful presence and scars," beat out newcomer, the "bunyanesque behemoth," 901 in the finals. Read more about 747 at the link in our bio.