Fat Bear Week 2023 concludes: Grazer emerges as the flabbiest of them all

KATMAI NATIONAL PARK & PRESERVE, Alaska (KOMO) — Fat Bear Week is over and the results are in. We now know who's the flabbiest bear of them all!

Each year, the folks at Katmai National Park & Preserve in Alaska gift us with battling rotund brown bears, each fattening up before the long sleep of winter hibernation. This is the 10th year.

The competition is arranged NCAA basketball tournament-style, pitting the hungry ursids' appetites against one another in a fight to see who can pack the biggest ponch.

Bear 128, also known as "Grazer," was crowned "Fat Bear 2023 Champion" after racking up more than 108,000 votes against bear 32, or "Chunk," who only had a little over 23,000 votes.

This battle of the bears was the talk of social media.

One user on "X" wrote "if you don't vote for Grazer, I’m not sure we can be friends."

Another user, who was a big fan of Chunk wrote, "how awesome that one of the fat bear week finalists is name 'chunk?' I think we know who this bear is supporting."