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The Global Chronicle

‘Fat Bear Week’ in Alaska Concludes with a Brand New Winner

Author

Robert Young

Updated on February 01, 2026

Bear 747 may not be pretty much as big as the plane that shares his name, however the creature has a tremendous new title. On Tuesday night, the earthy colored bear, who gauges an expected 1,400 pounds, was named the hero of Fat Bear Week, a yearly challenge that embraces the sound cravings of the monstrous creatures who wander Katmai Public Park and Save in Gold country.

Bear 747 got 68,105 votes, while second place Bear 901 got 56,876 in web based casting a ballot, Explore.org reported.

As per his profile, 747 as of late turned into the most prevailing bear in the locale, managing essentially every mid year day at Streams Falls in a journey to fill out.
The “gifted and proficient fisherman” ate up salmon in the jacuzzi and far pool region of the water highlight, pushing out different bears for the excellent fishing spots, as per Investigate.

A typical male grown-up can go from gauging 600 to 900 pounds in midsummer to well more than 1,000 pounds by the fall, as per the public park.

All through the drawn out casting a ballot period, a live cam conceded creature darlings and inquisitive spectators looks at the bears fishing — all before they sleep for the colder time of year.

In the same way as other a rivalry, in any case, Fat Bear Week was not without discussion.

On Sunday, that’s what coordinators uncovered “somebody rigged the voting station.”

As per CNN, the democratic outrage became exposed when another bear, 435 Holly, started getting a dubiously high measure of votes in a brief timeframe.

“While not unbelievable, it is extremely remarkable for a bear to return late in the day like that,” Explore.org’s Candice Rusch told CNN.

🐻 A Fat Bear Week scandal for the ages 🐻
Someone stuffed the ballot box! The correct total after our review is:
747: 37,940
435: 30,430
That makes 747 today’s winner.
Fake votes are discarded, and all the past days’ votes have been reviewed.
We’ll see you tomorrow!

— explore.org (@exploreorg) October 10, 2022


“We wound up finding a little more than 9,000 spam votes.”

Authorities added a manual human test element to the web based casting a ballot to correct the issue, the power source revealed.

Fat Bear Week started in 2014, when Otis — the current year’s reigning champion — won the primary cycle. The bear proceeded to come out on top for the championship again in 2016 and 2017.