After a week of voting, '747' was declared the winner of Fat Bear Week, the annual online competition where the public votes on which bear in an Alaska national park has gained the most weight.
Bear 747, who won for the first time in 2020, has a"blocky muzzle and a floppy right ear," per his, and his fur is reddish brown. He is a skilled and efficient angler who is found fishing most often in the jacuzzi or near the far pool of Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park.
Mike Fitz, the founder of Fat Bear Week and former Katmai park ranger, has frequently endorsed 747 over the years, including this one, he“It’s a bit of a running joke for me and some of the hardcore bear cam fans,” he said. “I’ve done that for the past several years, and 747 hasn’t won many. He’s only won one before. So I don’t think my endorsement carries that much weight.”“He is the largest bear I've ever seen," he said.
“The bears don’t get anything from Fat Bear Week at all,” Fitz told BuzzFeed News. “They don’t know what’s going on. This is an imaginary and virtual competition.” But for Fitz, it’s not about who wins. Instead, he sees this as an opportunity to get people thinking and learning about bears and their ecosystems.
“It’s important to think about how bears survive, why they survive, what they need to survive, and also to celebrate the ecosystem at Katmai that supports them,” Fitz said.
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