Last year’s winner, 435 Holly, tried to defend her title. By UnofficialNet July 18, 2020 2:42 pm. Bear fans compared photos and voted online for their favourites. He has repeatedly proved the victor of Fat Bear Week. The fiercest, fattest contest in Alaska is raging online this week — and the competitors are true heavyweights. Whoever ends up in the bracket, we want to help you celebrate your favorite picks. Winner of ‘fattest bear’ competition crowned ahead of hibernation season World News Published: Oct 8, 2020 Bear number 747 won the top spot in Alaska’s annual Fat Bear Week. Bear 747 squared up against Bear 32, or Chunk, in the final round of the competition. One of the more easily accessible foods the bears find at the park is sockeye salmon, which go through the Brooks River in large numbers every year. Match six of
#FatBearWeek brings the charismatic contestant, bear 812, up against the lardy leviathan, bear 747. Wolman says "Otis" — Bear 480 — is a long-time fan favourite. This year, the competition has its … Bear number 747 won the award for fattest bear at Katmai National Park and Preserve after a week of competitive online voting. Fat Bear Week 2020 crowns its big winner. B ear number 747 won the award for fattest bear at Katmai National Park and Preserve after a week of competitive online voting. After a week of voting, southwest Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve has named bear 747 the winner of … What does the champ win? It's going to be a pretty close call. By CNN. Fat Bear Week is coming up around the corner! "These guys are doing really well this year. Their survival rests on having a large amount of stored fat, meaning the brown bears have to eat a year’s worth of food in six months in a process known as hyperphagia. To encourage thoughtful and respectful conversations, first and last names will appear with each submission to CBC/Radio-Canada's online communities (except in children and youth-oriented communities). “She is fat. The voting lastest a week. The aptly named ursine version of a jumbo jet won a bracket competition, beating out other monster bears of Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska to claim the title. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Bear 747 has been crowned the fattest bear of the year by voters of the Katmai National Park Fat Bear Week. (The losers can, well, go back to eating.) "Its a contest the contestants are completely unaware of," said Sara Wolman, project manager with Katmai Conservancy. By Danielle Garrand September 30, 2020 / 1:14 PM / CBS News Each year, people vote for the heftiest brown bear at the Katmai National Park and Preserve during the Fat Bear Week contest. "He's one of the oldest bears," she said. The chubby cub club: Fat Bear Week 2020 kicks off online with users voting on which Alaskan animal they believe has piled on the most pounds ahead … Bear number 747 won the top spot in Alaska’s annual Fat Bear Week. Matchups will be open for voting from 12 - 10 p.m. Eastern (8 a.m. - … This year's winner, 747, was unquestionably a giant. Every year, animal lovers get … Bear 747, the 2020 Fat Bear Week champion. The aptly named ursine version of a jumbo jet won a bracket competition, beating out other monster bears of Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska to claim the title. Bear 747 is the 2020 winner of Katmai National Park and Preserve’s Fat Bear Week. The winner of Fat Bear Week 2020 has been declared, with 747 trouncing fan favorite Chunk in the final round of the popular internet competition. The bears also subsist on berries and grass. Stewart Perrie . Bear "747," named after the iconic jumbo jet, swept away the competition to win the coveted spot of fattest bear. The winner of this year’s Fat Bear Week in Alaska has been crowned. Spain hosts final Wingfoil World Tour event of 2020; 07:12. Fat Bear Week comes but once a year, during which time the doom feed is momentarily muffled by the gloriously hefty boys (and girls!) The annual competition celebrates the chubbiest brown bears in the Brooks River region of Katmai National Park and Preserve. The bear thanked the salmon at Brooks River for helping him win the accolade, along with “all the little bears he pushed out of the way to gain access to the best fishing spot of them all”. 'Bear Force One' is crowned winner of Fat Bear Week 2020: Grizzly number 747 trounces Chunk to 'take home' top prize. Fat Bear Week is delighting the internet, as the public votes for their favourite salmon-slammer. Last year's winner, Holly, was crowned the Queen of Corpulence. Brown bears can put on up to four pounds of weight a day and, as hibernation begins, the largest adult males can weigh more than 1,200 pounds. Wolman is pulling for Bear 747, a "really big" bear who weighed 1,408 pounds last year. Fat Bear Week is back — you can now vote for your favorite brown bear at this national park in Alaska. Original Post. Photograph: National Park Service/Reuters. Winner of ‘fattest bear’ competition crowned ahead of hibernation season. A champion has been named in Katmai National Park’s annual Fat Bear Week competition. Audience Relations, CBC P.O. The winner of this year’s Fat Bear Week in Alaska has been crowned. Fat Bear Week 2020 crowns its big winner After gorging on salmon all summer and fall, one Alaskan brown bear is the fattest of all. World News Published: Oct 8, 2020. May The Fattest Bear Win: Voting Opens For National Park's Pre-Hibernation Contest Online voting for the fattest bear at Katmai National Park is … The crown for the fattest bear in Alaska went to Bear 747 — an adult male that shares a name with the mammoth jet plane. Bear 747 - named after the Boeing 747 jumbo jet because he's so big - has been crowned the 'fattest bear of the year'. Each day, between September 30 and October 6, fans decided which of two bears was the fattest by voting on the park's website. “People love bears and they love a good competition,” said Amber Kraft, a spokeswoman for the park, which stretches about 4.1 million acres and is about 290 miles southwest of Anchorage. The winner of this year’s Fat Bear Week in Alaska has been crowned. On Oct. 6, the results were released with 747 garnering 47,055 with Chunk only receiving 21,854 total votes. He sits at the far end of the falls and waits for salmon to come to him. Comments are welcome while open. This year, the honor goes to a bear named “747” — just like the jet airplane — who clocks in at a whopping 1,400 pounds. The annual bracket contest has been celebrating brown bears in Brooks River in Katmai National Park since 2014. Salmon-loving animal beats off 11 chunky rivals in popular voting for Fat Bear Week at Alaska park The crown for the fattest bear in Alaska went to Bear 747 — an adult male that shares a name with the mammoth jet plane. The bear is one of the largest and heaviest at the park. By submitting a comment, you accept that CBC has the right to reproduce and publish that comment in whole or in part, in any manner CBC chooses. 2020 Champ, Bear 747 at Katmai National Park National Park Service Photos / N. Boak. Experience the excitement of survival of the fattest when Fat Bear Week 2020 begins Wednesday, September 30th! The bracket-style tournament pins two bears against each other in daily elimination rounds. People can also watch the bears feast in the river via a live bear cam. Each day the public votes for the fattest bear, as they chunk up on salmon before winter hibernation. Pseudonyms will no longer be permitted. Winner of ‘fattest bear’ competition crowned ahead of hibernation season Bear 747, winner of Fat Bear Week (Katmai National Park and Preserve/N Boak/PA) Thu, 08 Oct, 2020 - 08:19 Fat Bear Winner 2020. On September 30, it officially became Fat Bear Season. Bear Called 747 Has Been Crowned America's Fattest Bear For 2020. © From National Parks Service Congratulations, Bear 747! Now, we celebrate his claiming of the crown. Fat Bear Week was born in 2014 as a way to “celebrate all the hard work that these bears do to survive and thrive and get through six months of starvation,” Boak says. The annual competition--which began in 2014--kicked off Wednesday and asks voters to decide which brown bear at Brooks River is the plumpest. Fat Bear Week comes but once a year, during which time the doom feed is momentarily muffled by the gloriously hefty boys (and girls!) There's also "Chunk," formally known as Bear 32. Only the winning bears from each day continued in the competition. As the fattest bears get sized up, some people have already picked their favorites to champion. From September 30 to October 6, your vote decides who is the fattest bear. We reserve the right to close comments at any time. Bear 747 squared up against Bear 32, or Chunk, in the final round of the competition. Fat Bear Week is a yearly event which sees 12 bears go against each other in playoff-style competition. “Excessive weight gain is key to a bear’s survival,” Ms. Kraft, the park spokeswoman, said. In 2018, a bear named 409 Beadnose won the fattest title. Fat Bear Week is an annual tournament celebrating the success of the bears at Brooks River in Katmai National Park. "It essentially allows them to keep eating and eating and eating," she said. The … In Alaska, a huge salmon-chomping bear named ‘747’ has emerged as the countries fattest bear for 2020. Last week, 747 won an online vote to be called Alaska’s fattest bear. Bears have been matched up in a single-elimination tournament, complete with a … Fat Bear Week 2020: Meet the Heavy Hibernators Packing on the Pounds for Your Vote This Year! Created six years ago, the … CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices. share. Beating out the hefty competition is Bear 747. Who is the fattest bear of them all? ", Wolman says the contest has become a good way to educate the public on "how amazing these bears are.". Now, we celebrate his claiming of the crown. “Her radiant rolls were deemed by the voting public to be this year’s most fabulous flab,” the park declared that year. Please note that CBC does not endorse the opinions expressed in comments. The Winner Holly, 2019 Fat Bear Queen; Fat Bear 2019 Brackets; First Annual Fat Bear Beer Fest; Get to Know Us; Contact Us; Shop Katmai Conservancy; Katmai Store. May The Fattest Bear Win: Voting Opens For National Park's Pre-Hibernation Contest Online voting for the fattest bear at Katmai National Park is on, as the chunks race to get big before hibernation. “Long live the Queen of Corpulence!”. While he may have been unseated last year by Holly, overlooking this big bear … Once the bears curl up in their dens to begin hibernation, they will not eat or drink for months, losing about a third of their body weight. Last year’s contest drew more than 200,000 votes, Ms. Kraft said. “Taxonomists currently consider brown bears and grizzly bears to be the same species,” she said, distinguished mainly by brown bears’ access to coastal food and grizzlies’ inland habitat. After gaining media attention for his waddling appearance, bear 747, named for a randomly assigned number that became pretty telling, was a fan favorite from the start. This year’s competition, which began on Sept. 30 and ran through Oct. 6, when a victor was named, attracted about more than 600,000 votes. Share Tweet. Bear 747, nicknamed the Earl of Avoirdupois, was voted the heftiest out of 12 contestants. While the plumpest of the plump work to gain even more, Katmai’s bears of Brooks River will compete in head-to-head matchups in Fat Bear Week’s single elimination tournament. Bear … She has reared several litters of cubs, making her “one of the more experienced and tolerant mother bears at Brooks River,” it said. sms. “747 would like to thank the salmon for such high concentrations of fat, the clean cold water of the Brooks River for being a fabulous host, and all the little bears he pushed out of the way to gain access to the best fishing spot of them all,” the park said. The chubby cub club: Fat Bear Week 2020 kicks off online with users voting on which Alaskan animal they believe has piled on the most pounds ahead of hibernation season He beat 11 other competitors to win the title. Author: TEGNA Published: 9:07 AM EDT September 29, 2020 Closed Captioning and Described Video is available for many CBC shows offered on CBC Gem. A moment of social media fame, and also the likelihood of surviving winter. The event began as Fat Bear Tuesday in 2014, and expanded into a weeklong contest a year later to raise awareness about the wildlife in the park and preserve, the home to about 2,200 brown bears. In … As the fattest bears get sized up, some people have already picked their favorites to champion. Thank You. The Laziest/ Fattest Bear of 2020 = This Beauty. Sign Up . To show the bears’ drastic weight gains, the park shows photos of them before and after they began packing on the pounds this summer. BTS, K-pop bands wrap up 2020 with online gig; 01:38. Although up against some sizable competition, bear 747 — named after the large airliner — has been crowned the winner of Fat Bear Week 2020. estimated to weigh more than 1,400 pounds. Park rangers have created a March Madness-like game out of the contest by pitting pairs of bears against each other — for votes — and asking the public to choose their favorite heavyweights. The Laziest/ Fattest Bear of 2020 = This Beauty ALL. “She is large and in charge and she seems to be a great mom to her cubs,” said Ms. Daggerhart, 35. If you want to check out the live bear cams, you can find them here. Ready to check out the competition for this year’s crown? This competition is brought to you through the partnership of Katmai National Park and Preserve, explore.org and the Katmai Conservancy. By UnofficialNet | July 18, 2020 2:42 pm The Brooks River in Alaska is teeming with leaping salmon and very fat bears. 10:55am Oct 9, 2020. The annual competition, held by Katmai National Park in Alaska, crowns the fattest bear in the park's Brooks River. In 2014, she adopted a lone cub into her family and raised the cub alongside her own. Like a rite of fall, the Katmai National Park and Preserve in southern Alaska celebrates its fattest brown bears. The poll involves some genuine … Don't worry - it's not a bad title to have! This is Bear 747’s first Fat Bear Week win. He was estimated to weigh more than 1,400 pounds in 2019, and the park said he looked about just as plump this year. “This year, in particular, Fat Bear Week is a nice break from everything else going on,” she added. 2 comments. Winner of ‘fattest bear’ competition crowned ahead of hibernation season World News Published: Oct 8, 2020 Bear number 747 won the top spot in Alaska’s annual Fat Bear Week. Explore.org Bearcam; About Us. On Oct. 6, the results were released with 747 garnering 47,055 with Chunk only receiving 21,854 total votes. Bear number 747 won the top spot in Alaska’s annual Fat Bear Week. The bears are in a state of hyperphagia, a drive to keep eating in order to store fat before winter. The fattest bear of 2020 has been decided! By Press Association 2020 Bear 747, winner of Fat Bear Week. Winner of ‘fattest bear’ competition crowned ahead of hibernation season. Matchups will be open for voting from 12 - 10 p.m. Eastern (9 a.m. - … send. Your personal data will be used to support your experience throughout this website, to manage access to your account, and for other purposes described in our privacy policy. While she's back in the running this year,Wolman said she now has cubs to feed so is not quite so bulky. The bear with the most votes advances to the next round. The winner of this year’s Fat Bear Week in Alaska has been crowned. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Bear 747 has been crowned the fattest bear of the year by voters of the Katmai National Park Fat Bear Week. Often the biggest bear at Katmai National Park … On social media, the bears have fans who root for them as they go about their bear lives. "In general, pregnant females and … The winner will be crowned 2020′s Fattest Bear. Park staff members assign the bears numbered names, like 480 Otis, so that they can identify and monitor them, and some of the most frequently seen bears get nicknames, too. “Some bears can eat more than 40 salmon in a day,” Ms. Kraft said, noting that a salmon is between 2,500 and 6,000 calories. Subscribe to our daily newsletter! It’s fun to cheer for these bears!”. A multi-year champion, the photogenic and hefty Otis can never be counted out of any fat bear competition. Holly, this rotund and furry grandma bear, was crowned the fattest of them all during Katmai National Park and Preserve's Fat Bear Week contest in 2019. In the final round on Tuesday, he defeated a bear named 32 Chunk, with more than 47,000 votes to about 28,800. After a week of voting, southwest Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve has named bear 747 the winner of Fat Bear Week 2020… Tweet; Facebook; Mail; After gorging on salmon all summer and fall, one Alaskan brown bear is the fattest of all. This, Ms. Daggerhart said, made Holly “all-around fantastic.”. Choose the fattest bear of the year! "They call him Zen Master Otis because he's just very chill.". It is a priority for CBC to create a website that is accessible to all Canadians including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges. pin. “I think this contest is so popular because it’s one of the few remaining wholesome events we can all participate in. “This year he really packed on the pounds, looking like he was fat enough to hibernate in July and yet continuing to eat until his belly seemed to drag along the ground by late September,” the park said in its announcement. Bear 747, the 2020 Fat Bear Week champion. … The contestants are pitted against eachother in a March Madness-style bracket showing their names, numbers and photos. — National Park Service (@NatlParkService) October 7, 2020. World News Published: Oct 8, 2020. Can 812’s charm persuade voters or will 747’s diligent dining deliver a win?
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https://t.co/NvXCYNigTJ pic.twitter.com/baTmnnCR8O. The Fat Bear Week competition takes place just before the bears enter their dens in October and November to hibernate. Each summer, park staff members usually identify about 40 bears along the Brooks River, Ms. Kraft said, adding that only brown bears regularly inhabit the park. Fat Bear Week, the annual competition by Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve, has crowned its fattest bear for 2020. Last updated 9:09 AM, Thursday October 08 2020 GMT+1. Winner of ‘fattest bear’ competition crowned ahead of hibernation season. The park creates a bracket — pictured above — to determine the fattest bear of the year. Fat Bear Week is an annual competition, held by Katmai National Park in Alaska, to crown the fattest bear of the state's Brook River. Bear "747," named after the iconic jumbo jet, swept away the competition to win the coveted spot of fattest bear. The park holds Fat Bear Week, an online competition that highlights how intensely the bears eat, stuffing themselves with sockeye salmon at the Brooks River to gain weight for winter hibernation. Katmai's competition already has a huge fat bear fanbase, which grew from a smaller group of Facebook participants from 2014. She also won in 2015. — National Park Service (@NatlParkService) October 7, 2020. Your votes decide who will wear the mantle of 2020’s Fattest Bear. Holly, described as a “medium-large adult” on her bio, has won over some fans with her strong maternal instincts. Another fan favorite and repeat winner is 480 Otis, a male bear who was estimated to weigh more than 900 pounds in 2019. Who is the fattest bear of them all? Box 500 Station A Toronto, ON Canada, M5W 1E6. email. He has additional bragging rights for being the inaugural Fat Bear Tuesday champ in 2014, and the winner in 2016 and 2017.