Chunk, a bear with 1,200 pounds with a fracture, wins the famous Waint Fat Bear competition in Alaska

Chunk, the towering brown bear with a fracture, fractured, the competition on Tuesday in the famous FAR Week competition – its first victory after it ended with a slight difference in second place three years.

The annual online competition allows viewers to follow 12 bears in the Katami National Park in Alaska, keep live web cameras and vote in one championship similar to the arc that lasts a week. Chunk – officially known as Bear 32 – who has no nickname, in the final slide, according to the groups published on the organization’s website.

Chunk weight is estimated at 1,200 pounds by the competition organizers. Although it does not weigh the individual bears during the competition due to safety concerns, Chunk and others have been wiped to enhance weight gains in the past using Lidar’s laser technology.

“Although broken broken, it is still one of the largest cold bears in the Bruges River,” said Mike Fitz, the nature world of Explore.org. Fitz said a piece that is likely to hurt his jaw in a fight with another bear.

The competition is very popular. This year, it attracted more than 1.5 million votes from the fans who saw Orsines Gorge in a record of the fall after they were hunting in the Bruges River, about 483 kilometers from Anchorage.

It is the greatest abundance of salmon in the memories of living bears or humans who have been running the FAT Bear Week competition since 2014, according to Katmai Conservancy Naomi Boak.

“The conflict in the river has decreased since the salmon was easily available,” Boak said in an email. On Tuesday’s announcement, Katmai National Park Sarah Bruce estimated about 200,000 salmon on its way to the Bruges River.

In the younger years, the most difficult Goki Beers for the best fishing sites in Broks Fols, where salmon meets the bottleneck and jumps from the water while they are fighting on their way to spawn.

This year, the fishing points in Broks were often empty as the bears were hunted up and down. There was even a human room for hunting. At one time on Monday, one of the live cameras showed Explore.org two people quietly throwing hunting bars along the river even while the motivated brown was emitting from the source and the match.

Voters in the online competition can review before and after the bears pictures, and the two people at the beginning of the summer and fattening at the end. Bears are not actually weighing – it will be very dangerous and difficult – and some of their favorite fans choose based on appearance or background.

The live cameras in Brooks Fols acquired moments in 2024 when the Mother’s Cub 128 slipped on the waterfall and floated in the hunting spot occupied by a piece, which attacked and wounded the cub. Grazer fought a piece, but the cub was finally dead. After the dramatic battle, Grazer votes handed over a victory over a piece.

In 2014, FAAT WeEK started as an interactive way to inform the public about Brown Beers, the cousins ​​of Grizlies. They spend the summer hunting and eating the largest possible number of salmon so that they can fatten the ripples in the cold winter in Alaska.