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The 747 was named the champion in winning over the 901

October 12, 2022

The 2022 edition of Fat Bear Week was unlike any other, and not even with it Voting violence rocked southwest Alaska747 was crowned this year’s chonk champion – the bear’s second title in three years.

A week-long celebration of bears feasting on salmon at Katmai National Park and Preserve as snow and ice looms has fans around the world vote on the bear they think is the true “titan of tonnage.” And the 747, “a fat-covered Leviathan with a strong presence and scars,” defeated the new “Bunyanesque behemoth,” the 901, in the finals.

“Votes are in – decided to upgrade to fish class & fly w/ 747!” park it was announced on Twitter.

More than 793,000 votes were cast in last year’s edition, also a new record for Fat Bear Week. Lian Law, the park’s vision specialist and Fat Bear Week coordinator, told USA TODAY in September that the goal was to reach a million votes. The first results from the 2022 vote showed a contest that received more than 900,000 votes.

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And 747 is the largest bear known to use the Brooks River to harvest salmon, which can weigh as much as 1,400 pounds. according to the park. “He is a skilled and hard-working fisherman,” 747 has been sitting on top of a bear in the park since last summer, and he got there not because of anger, but only because of his size.

“Many bears know they can’t compete with him physically and give way when he arrives. He shows that skill and size influence success in the bear world,” the park said. “When he was there in late August and September, 747 was again the dominant bear in the river.”

And the 747 took the title over rival 901, which was competing in its first Fat Bear Week. The runner-up is known to defend his fishing grounds from other wolves, even though he is only six years old. He is independent, brave and sometimes mischievous, but he doesn’t like to “play fight” like other bears his age.

While the 747 won its second crown after winning the first in 2020, it did not come without controversy. It looked like the bear would lose his semi-final match after 2019 champion 435 Holly had a late surge in the votes, but. Katmai National Park & Preserve was announced on Sunday that someone spammed the election with Holly’s fraudulent votes.

Mike Fitz, a naturalist from one of the contest’s organizers, Explore.org, told USA TODAY the fake votes totaled “several thousand.” National Park said it was able to discard the spammed votes, causing 747 to reach the last on his way to victory.

Don’t expect a championship game if the cup is full of 747 salmon. Bear may have zero sense of his winning and reputation status, and he will gain nothing from being a champion.

The winner is one of the an estimated 2,200 brown bears which houses a 4-million acre national park. Brown bears gain a lot of weight because when they sleep, they can lose up to a third of their weight as they are not eating or drinking, relying on their stored fat to keep them going through the winter.

See how the 2022 champion has evolved over the years.