From a dozen to just one: “32 chunk” scars was crowned as the Brooks River champion of Alaska, the organizers announced on Tuesday.
The annual competition attracted tens of thousands of votes and lasted a week.
The Chunk beat the rival Bear “856” in the final surveys, 96,350 votes to 63,725, the organization that directs the live transmission cameras in the Katmai National Park and the reservation said.
“From the piece to the piece. The Chunkster. 32 trojo,” the organization explored, he published in X. “Everyone greets the new King of Brooks River.”
Fat Bear Week, a competition that began in 2014, opened to vote on September 23 with 12 contestants.
Bears have been trying to get fating over the salmon, even sometimes only eating the skin, brain and eggs to focus on most calories, before hibernating for winter.
Voters were instructed to choose “the bear who believes that the fatness and success in brown bears.”
The fragment is a male bear described as “very large” and weighs around 1,200 pounds. It has a distinctive scar and a broken jaw, which is healing but never expected to return to normal, according to the Explore website.
“The moment of injury during the brown bear’s mating season and its nature strongly suggests that the fragment was injured in a fight with another bear,” said the organization.
Katmai National Park and the Reserve, on the Alaska Peninsula, southwest Anchorage, is known for its brown bears. The Brooks camp at the mouth of the Brooks River attracts visitors every year to see the big animals.
Salmon returns upstream in the Brooks throughout the summer to spawn, and the bears are there to meet open jaws. Then, in September, the fish are weakened and dying and the bears return to eat again, says the park on its website.
Katmai’s bears generally go to their lairies to hibernate in October and November, according to the park.
