'He really packed on the pounds': Fat Bear Week crowns 747 the winner

747, one of more than 2,200 brown bears roaming Alaska's Katmai national park and preserve, won after a week of online voting

In Alaska's annual battle of furry heavyweights, a salmon-chomping bruin nicknamed 747 - like the jumbo jet - has emerged as the people's choice 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 late on Tuesday after a week of frenzied online voting (by humans) in what has become an international sensation: Fat Bear Week.