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Cecilia Nowell

Fat Bear Week has returned – and the salmon are swimming for their lives

a fat brown bear standing in river with fish in its mouth
More than 1.7m votes were cast from 100 countries before the public crowned the bear nicknamed ‘Chunk’ as last year’s victor. Photograph: Explore.org

The bears have returned to the river and are packing on the pounds as another Fat Bear Week begins at Katmai national park.

The 12th annual Fat Bear Week, in which the public will vote for the fattest of Katmai’s brown bears as mothers, cubs and males gather along the salmon-run at Brooks river in Alaska begins on Monday.

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