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JACKSON, Wyo. — Fat Bear Week means it is time to vote for the fattest bear of the year!

In recognition of the annual competition, the National Park Service (NPS) has shared the “tubbiest teddy” in the NPS History Collection archives. According to the NPS, in July 1931, as part of a wildlife survey of national parks led by George M. Wright, Joseph S. Dixon photographed a bear so rotund that it was infamously known at Yellowstone National Park (YNP) as “Fatty.”

While this Yellowstone bear was big, the NPS noted that many bears today achieve a much roun

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