She bearied her competition.
128 “Grazer” has been crowned the fattest bear of them all on Tuesday in a landslide victory against her runner-up, 32 Chunk, 108,321 votes to his 23,134.
More than 1.3 million voters turned out for the annual Katmai National Park & Preserve’s Fat Bear Week, a feel-good tournament celebrating the winter bods of the park’s burliest bears.
The once-scrawny brown bear — who dethroned incumbent 747 in the second round — beefed up for her Alaskan hibernation in just two months’ time, and is usually one of the plumpest salmon predators to prowl the Brooks River every year, according to the National Park Service.
Grazer, a single mom, “preemptively confronts and attacks larger bears,” including adult males, to keep her cubs safe, commanding respect and fear from her peers. 151 Walker — who stood no chance against the brawny broad in the first round and was eliminated — cowers when she approaches.
After the behemoth boss babe was introduced to Brooks River as a cub nearly two decades ago, she has become “one of the best anglers” around, hence her successfully porky figure.
Grazer beat out her fan-favorite opponent Chunk as the chonkiest champion, despite his “substantial fat reserves.”
Unlike the voluptuous victor, Chunk couldn’t measure up to his fellow brown bears at the river, and in past years was “often unwilling or unable to successfully challenge” the larger males or even fish.
This summer, however, Chunk used his glow-up — and bulk-up — to his advantage.
The mammoth salmon hunter used his size to his advantage, intimidating even the most rotund bears, such as 747, into giving up their prized fishing stations and quickly rose to riverside stardom as one of the “largest and most dominant males.”
Unfortunately, his “ample hindquarters” could not secure him first place among the fierce competition in Fat Bear Week.
It’s unclear exactly how much Chunk or Grazer weigh, although the Alaska park is home to some of the largest bears in the world, with adult males ballooning between 1,000 to 1,4000 pounds and females tipping the scales at 700 or 800 pounds.
“We have some of the largest bears on the planet,” Ranger Naomi Boak previously told NPR, who said “they need every ounce of fat they can get” before hibernation.