10 FATTEST Animals Ever Seen

10 FATTEST Animals Ever Seen

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Have you ever been worried about your weight? Maybe you gained some pounds during your first year of college or even got really obsessed about getting that chubby body ready for long days on the beach.
Well, I'm here to tell you that humans are not the only ones that struggle to stay slim. Animals can have the same problem, and when it happens, we get some unusually-looking animals.
Today, we're going to be looking at ten of the fattest wild animals in the world. You’ll see how these animals turned into the overweight version of their kind - some due to health issues, greed and others due to inexplicable reasons.
As always, the best pick is saved for number two, so make sure to stick around till the end.
With all said and done, let's begin:
Number 10: Bandit
A raccoon named Bandit is the 10th animal on our list. His chubbiness is due to a thyroid complication he developed at birth. For those who do not know, the thyroid is the gland that balances body growth – whether on humans and animals.
Bandit grew up with a group of dogs and was later adopted by a Pennsylvanian woman who mainly fed him with his favorite foods that included chips and French fries.
By the year 1999, Bandit’s weight rose to 23.8 kilos. Two years later, he weighed 29.2 kilos, which’s about five times bigger than that of any regular raccoon. Bandit rose into global prominence when he got a spot in the 1999 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records as the fattest raccoon ever.
Bandit became a celebrity and was featured as a guest in plenty of major media outlets in the UK, such as the Food Network. In 2004, the raccoon reached a weight of 34 kilos and started exhibiting signs of cancer. He was finally put to sleep that year to avoid further suffering.

Number 9: Holly, the bear
Every year during the summer, people gather to celebrate fat bear week at the Katmai National Park in Alaska. During this event, employees of the park ask visitors to vote for the bear that has become the fattest over the summer.
And far from being a body-shaming event, the park claims that this is a celebration of life as large amounts of body fat in brown bears indicates good health and is a strong pointer towards the possibility of their survival over winter.
The most recent winner is a bear named Holly and you’d be surprised at how quickly this beautiful bear gained a significant amount of weight in just a couple of months. The park introduced Holly as a fabulous bear whose unusual weight would help her hibernate until the spring.
At an estimated weight of 1000 pounds, she’s so big that its belly literally drags along the ground. Whereas, if she were only about 700pounds – which is the average weight of an adult brown bear, her stomach wouldn’t be so saggy.

Number 8: Uncle fatty
For the unenlightened, Uncle Fatty was the name given to a long-tailed macaque who was put on a strict diet in 2017 by animal workers after his weight ballooned to 33 pounds, twice the average for his species.

Uncle Fatty’s astronomical weight gain was largely due to his close proximity to a food market, where tourists took great pleasure in feeding his food addiction, and reduced the need for Fatty to forage and burn off calories.
Although most macaques are small, agile, and never reach past 20 pounds, this massive macaque tips the scales at an astonishing 60 pounds.
This steady stream of effortless food and tourists’ snacks has earned this king-sized animal a king-sized tummy as well as a minor celebrity status throughout Bangkok.
Sadly, uncle fatty hasn't been seen or heard from since 2019 and is feared to be dead.

Number 7: Patrick The Wombat
Patrick here is officially the oldest and biggest, cutest and cuddliest common wombat known to humanity. All of that has made the guinea pig-looking become a much-sought celebrity in the animal kingdom.
While the usual weight of an adult wombat reaches no more than 44 pounds, Patrick weighed as much as 88 pounds during his hay day. Also, Patrick may have managed to live up to 31 years – a decade more than wombats were known to live up to in captivity.
What’s even more surprising is that Patrick, the wombat, has its own Facebook account which has up to 65,000 followers. His page listed his “personal interests” as riding in his wheelbarrow, cuddling, and eating freshly picked grass
The soft chubby creature was finally put to sleep in 2017 at the Ballarat Wildlife Park in the southeast Australian state of Victoria, after having been featured in several TV shows in 2017, leaving many of its fans sad

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