Gentle giant Backpack declared winner of Alaska's Fat Bear Week
Summary
Backpack won Alaska's Fat Bear Week, a contest to find the heaviest brown bear in Katmai National Park. He received over 100,000 votes, narrowly beating Bear 910 with about 50% of the total votes.Key Facts
- Backpack is a brown bear living in Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska.
- Fat Bear Week is a yearly contest that celebrates the size and survival of bears in the park.
- This contest has been running for 12 years since 2014.
- More than 2,200 brown bears live in the preserve on the Alaska Peninsula.
- The contest uses public voting to choose the "fattest" bear.
- This year, Backpack won with just over half of the votes, beating Bear 910.
- The contest helps educate people about brown bears, relatives of grizzly bears found along the coast.
- The nonprofit organization running the contest shares updates and results each year.
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