This is the fattest of the fat bears

Welcome to Fat Bear Week 2020! Katmai National Park and Preserve’s brown bears spent the summer gorging on 4,500-calorie salmon, and they've transformed into rotund giants, some over 1,000 pounds. The park is holding its annual playoff-like competition for the fattest of the fat bears (you can vote online between Sept. 30 and Oct. 6). Mashable will be following all the ursine activity.    He is colossal.  Bear 747 — a bear who really grew into a usually mundane number assigned by Park Service biologists — is often the biggest bear at Katmai National Park and Preserve's Brooks River, home to the livestreaming bear cams. In recent years, bear experts say he's weighed well over 1,000 pounds. He's never, however, won the Fat Bear Week contest. Read more...More about Animals, Bear Cam, Fat Bear Week, Science, and Animals