🐻 Chunk
Really called Bear 32
Brown bear · Katmai National Park, Alaska
Lives in Bear Ridge
Reigning Fat Bear Week champion, 2025. An enormous, scarred, blocky male who fought his way up the river hierarchy over years. Not the crowd favourite. Won anyway.
What they do
Rears up to full height on the riverbank, towering, then drops back down.
A slab of a bear. Wins by being unignorably vast.
Lore
- ★He won the 2025 bracket, the biggest Fat Bear Week yet
- ★His scarred ear and jaw come from years of fights over prime fishing spots
- ★Not to be confused with Chunk the vegetable-stealing groundhog, also a resident here
Helping the real one
💛 Support Chunk via Katmai ConservancyThe nonprofit partner of Katmai National Park This opens their own official page. Money never touches this site.
Where this comes from
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