World’s fattest bear crowned as 800lb behemoth Grazer wins ‘Fat Bear Week’ after contest hit by bloody brawls & tragedy

A GIANT grizzly carnivore weighing up to 800lb has been crowned arsenic the world's fattest aft winning the celebrated Fat Bear Week contention successful Alaska.

The 20-year-old behemoth called Grazer defeated rival Chunk successful a bloody brawl to go the undisputed queen - for the 2nd consecutive time.

Grazer bushed Chunk by much than 40,000 votes formed by fans watching the online contention done unrecorded cameras astatine Katmai National Park and Preserve successful Alaska.

The contention puts immoderate of the chunkiest - and astir assertive bears - successful a bracket to pit against each different successful single-elimination face-offs.

The knock-out rounds spot the 8 finalists whittled down to conscionable 2 implicit a week.

Thousands of radical from each astir the satellite ticker the unrecorded contention and take their favourite, judging the bears connected their warring skills - and the magnitude of abdominous they gained aft emerging from spring hibernation.

Grazer fought Chunk - 1 of the astir fashionable bears successful the portion - for the 2nd clip successful 2 years to go the winner.

But the conflict was marked by a tragic lawsuit that took spot earlier this year.

The unit of the nationalist parkland accidental that Grazer had been teaching her 2 cubs to food erstwhile they accidentally fell into a high-current stream watercourse and swept into the territory of Chunk, who was hunting for food.

Known to beryllium an aggressively protective mum, Grazer rushed to prevention her 2 kids, but 1 of them was mauled to decease by Chunk.

The decease was captured connected the unrecorded cameras.

Sarah Bruce, a spokesperson for the park, said: "I deliberation that perchance if Chunk hadn’t taken retired 1 of Grazer’s cubs this twelvemonth it would person been a overmuch person fight."

"He moved up to that astir ascendant spot this year, but it’s a lawsuit of ever the bridesmaid, ne'er the bride.

"There was a batch of emotion for Chunk arsenic well. He was conscionable doing what bears do."

With blond ears and a long, consecutive muzzle, Grazer is said to person a formidable beingness connected Brooks River.

Her fearlessness and spot person earned her respect, with astir bears avoiding confrontation, the unit say.

Weighing up to 1,200 lb, Chunk is among the biggest bears successful the wildlife parkland - with narrow-set eyes, acheronian brownish fur and a distinctive scar crossed his muzzle, his bio says.

He utilized his size to emergence to the apical of the stream hierarchy this twelvemonth and secured the premier sportfishing spots.

His assurance and aggression paid off, allowing him to feast connected 42 salmon successful 10 hours - and his carnal occurrence is evident successful his bulky form.

Adult antheral brownish bears typically measurement 600 to 900lb successful mid-summer.

By the clip they are acceptable to hibernate aft feasting connected migrating and spawning salmon, each eats arsenic galore arsenic 30 food per time ample males tin measurement good implicit 1,000lb.

The yearly contest, which drew much than 1.3 cardinal votes past year, is simply a mode to observe the resiliency of the 2,200 brownish bears that unrecorded successful the sphere connected the Alaska Peninsula.

Meanwhile, another decease successful the parkland was captured unrecorded by the cameras conscionable past week, delaying the merchandise of the tourney bracket for a day.

Bear 402, a pistillate carnivore that was expected to beryllium a contestant successful this year's contest, was killed by a antheral brownish carnivore the time the brackets were expected to beryllium released.

The convulsive brawl, which was caught on a unrecorded webcam, involved a pistillate carnivore named Bear 402 and a antheral carnivore named Bear 469 successful a stream in Alaska's Katmai National Park and Preserve.

Footage showed the bears wrestling successful the river, with the pistillate being flooded and appearing to drown, earlier the antheral carries her assemblage to land.