Here’s The Winner Of The 2022 Fat Bear Week Competition

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747’s competitor this year was 901, a “medium-small yet quickly growing adult female.” 901 is around 6 years old and is often keen to “defend her fishing spots from other bears,” according to her biography on the website.

Fat Bear Week is put on in Alaska by Katmai National Park and explore.org to highlight the park’s bears. Katmai is home to more than 2,200 brown bears, one of the largest brown bear populations in the world.

If you’re wondering whether there are prizes for the bears who win Fat Bear Week, the answer is, sadly, no.

“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.

Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/annabetts/fat-bear-week-winner-announced

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