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Alaska grizzly bears packing on pounds (kilos) for the winter are competing for more than the season’s last salmon. Fat Bear Week has become a national internet sensation, pitting individual bears against each other in an online voting contest. At Katmai, a park in southwestern Alaska known for its bountiful salmon runs and the huge grizzlies – Alaskans call them “brown bears” – that feed on them, Fat Bear Week is an annual highlight.