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For the second year in a row, the brown bear sow, known as 128 Grazer, has been crowned Fat Bear Week Champion, beating out second place finisher Chunk once again. Grazer worked hard all summer, raising a cub and eating salmon to successfully survive the winter rest, the park administration in Alaska’s Katmai National Park wrote on Instagram on Tuesday. Grazer received significantly more votes – more than 71,000 – over her nearest rival, Chunk, who earned around 30,000 votes, making the win not a bare finish but a knockout. Chunk weighs an estimated 550 kilograms and sports a striking scar on …

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