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AMERICANALMANAC (Sadie Smith) - Backpack wins Fat Bear Week crown as Katmai’s gentle giant

Backpack claimed Alaska’s Fat Bear Week title with more than 100,000 votes, narrowly beating Bear 910 and rewarding the Katmai heavyweight’s quiet strength. The nonprofit behind the contest declared Bear 89 the champion Tuesday evening after the final poll closed, and the Associated Press reported the gentle giant took just over half the vote. Backpack, […] The post Backpack wins Fat Bear Week crown as Katmai’s gentle giant appeared first on American Almanac .

Backpack claimed Alaska’s Fat Bear Week title with more than 100,000 votes, narrowly beating Bear 910 and rewarding the Katmai heavyweight’s quiet strength. The nonprofit behind the contest declared Bear 89 the champion Tuesday evening after the final poll closed, and the Associated Press reported the gentle giant took just over half the vote. Backpack, a brown bear of Katmai National Park and Preserve on the Alaska Peninsula, topped a 16-bear single-elimination bracket that drew public ballots at fatbearweek.org. Fans could watch the animals gorge on the Brooks River through explore.org livestream cameras before they voted. The win fits the contest’s plain standard. “Fat bears are successful bears,” the nonprofit’s website…Open

Where can the public observe the Katmai brown bears feeding on the Brooks River?
Fans can watch the bears via livestream cameras through explore.org to see them gorge on salmon, which begins returning to the Brooks River in late June.
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Who were the notable contestants in the recent Fat Bear Week bracket?
Backpack won the title, narrowly beating Bear 910 (the daughter of former champion 409 Beadnose). Other notable bears mentioned include Bucky, who defeated last year's winner Chunk (Bear 32) in the first round, and Bear 132, a large and experienced mother bear.
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What is the history and purpose of Fat Bear Week?
Fat Bear Week is currently in its 12th year, having started in 2014. It is organized by a nonprofit to celebrate the resilience of the approximately 2,200 brown bears in Katmai National Park and Preserve and to provide the public with a way to learn about how these animals live.
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What are the typical weight ranges for adult male and female brown bears in Katmai?
Adult males typically weigh between 600 and 900 pounds in midsummer and can exceed 1,000 pounds before hibernation. Females are noted to be about one-third smaller than the males.
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How does the Fat Bear Week competition work and what is the significance of the weight gain?
The contest uses a 16-bear single-elimination bracket where the public votes at fatbearweek.org. The competition celebrates the resilience of Katmai's brown bears; weight gain is used as a metric for success because bears that eat well and avoid injury are better able to survive the winter, as they can lose about a third of their body weight during that time.
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Who won the Fat Bear Week title at Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska?
Backpack, a brown bear known as a "gentle giant," won the title after receiving more than 100,000 votes. He narrowly defeated Bear 910 in the final, securing just over half of the total votes.
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