Backpack! That’s his name. He’s a brown bear who was a candidate in the 2026 Alaska Fattest Bear competition.
I’m not going to copy and paste in a compelling photo of Backpack from the New York Times, lest I get some photo agency coming after me for a lot of money, but I can tell you Backpack is very large. Although the fattest part of him isn’t his back; it’s his understructure, i.e., his massive stomach. Maybe he wears his backpack as a tummy pack.
Whatever. He’s fat.
I’m wondering who went out to Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve with a scale to weigh those bears for Fat Bear Week.