A bear known as 409 Beadnose claimed top honors in the fourth annual Katmai National Park and Reserve's annual "fattest bear" contest.

"Her radiant rolls were deemed by the voting public to be this year's most fabulous flab. Our chubby champ has a few more weeks to chow down on lingering salmon carcasses before she heads up the mountains to dig herself a den and savor her victory," the national park posted on Facebook in October.

Katmai National Park is in southwestern Alaska. In its fun contest, designed in part to help educate the public on how bears fatten up before winter hibernation, the public could vote on social media accounts for which bear looked the fattest. Twelve bears were selected for the 2018 contest.

People could vote on social media on which bear looks to be the fattest in the preserve during “Fat Bear Week.” Facebook “likes” helped the bears advance through the bracket format.

In the showdown between the two finalists, Bear 409 was described by park officials as a "gigantic gal" with a "marvelous muffin top." Bear 747 was said to be a "blimpy boar" whose "belly barely has clearance with the ground."

"All of it is a fun — and it is fun — way to educate people on the struggle for survival that these bears go through and the dramatic changes involved in that. They are going to lose about one-third of their body weight over winter hibernation, and in order to survive the next year, they have to gain all of that back, in a few short weeks over the summer," Andrew LaValle, a park ranger at Katmai, told National Public Radio.

"As fun and silly as this thing is, there is a serious undertone to it," he said. "They're fishing and eating as much as they are because they have to. It is a game of life and death for them, with serious consequences."