ANCHORAGE—In Alaska’s annual battle of heavyweights, a salmon-chomping bruin named 747—like the jetliner—has emerged as the most fabulously fat.
The bear, one of more than 2,200 brown bears roaming Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve, was victorious on Oct. 6 after a week of frenzied online voting in what has become an international sensation: Fat Bear Week.
