The results are in – the succeeder of Fat Bear Week 2024 is none other than everyone ’s favourite mama bear , Grazer .
This is the second year in a row that Grazer ( more officially know as 128 ) has been declare Katmai National Park and Preserve ’s chonky whiz , stick out her rival Chunk ( 32 ) to attain 71,248votesin comparison to his measly 30,468 .
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However , this year ’s win is a particularly touching one – not just because it was thesecond timethat Grazer beat Chunk , but because her adversary was behind the expiry of one of her cubs earlier in the year .
Back in July , Grazer ’s two first - year cub were tangle over Katmai ’s famous Brooks Falls waterfall , carried by the weewee towards Chunk . draw bypark officialsas “ the most dominant bear on the river ” , Chunk assail the sonny boy and though Grazer was quick to defend them , one of the cubs die from its injuries .
It ’s no surprise then that the public amaze behind Grazer – who was make out for squaring up to big bear in defense of her cubs even before this year ’s incident – and gave her a landslide profits .
Then again , it ’s probably safe to say she ’d have been a rival anyway based on her chubbiness alone . Chunk might be , as the name would imply , pretty damn chunky , but Grazer is more than capable of keeping up . Such glorious rotundness can only be achieve by extend to true fishing finesse .
As naturalist and Fat Bear Week founding father Mike Fitz said in alivestreamcelebrating the end of the competition , “ [ Grazer ] is an implausibly skilled bear . Grazer can angle nearly anywhere at the Falls . She has preferred sportfishing smear , but she is able to fish at the lip , in the far pond , or even in the jacuzzi on rarefied social function . ”
“ If she feel the Falls is n’t an selection , she possess the potency and nimbleness to enamor salmon while run through the water . ”
An telling bear in more mode than one , that ’s for certain .
The build - up to this class ’s competition took adramatic turnwhen one of the bear due to take part , the grownup female dub 402 , got caught up in a fight and was killed by 469 , an adult male . As a result , the tournament bracket was issue a daytime later on than ab initio project , this prison term without long - standing contestant 402 .
Once the competition get off to a start , however , all expire smoothly – novoter fraudthis time around .
