Backpack wins Alaska’s Fat Bear Week
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Backpack, a brown bear known for his calm demeanor, has won Fat Bear Week at Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve. The bear, officially designated Bear 89, received more than 100,000 votes and narrowly defeated Bear 910 with just over half of the final online vote, according to NBC News.
The annual single-elimination contest featured 16 bears and allowed the public to watch them on Explore.org livestream cameras before voting. Now in its 12th year, Fat Bear Week celebrates the roughly 2,200 brown bears living in the preserve and highlights how they build fat reserves to survive winter hibernation.
Backpack is the son of former champion Holly, who brought him to the Brooks River as a cub in 2006. His nickname came from his habit of climbing onto his mother’s back while they crossed the river. His contestant profile described him as relying on “quiet strength” rather than aggression.
The bears feed heavily on salmon returning to the Brooks River, sometimes eating as many as 30 fish a day. Large adult males can exceed 1,000 pounds before hibernation, during which they may lose one-third of their body weight. Backpack succeeds last year’s winner, Chunk, who was defeated in the first round this year.
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WHAT IT FLAGGED editor revise: The story has a material attribution/detail issue that can be fixed by aligning it with NBC's account. - "Backpack succeeds last year’s winner, Chunk, who was eliminated in the first round this year.": NBC says Chunk was defeated in the first round by Bucky, not merely eliminated, and Bucky later lost to Backpack; the sentence is materially incomplete about the event chain only insofar as 'succeeds' plus 'eliminated' is acceptable? Actually not material. Need maybe no issue. But tool requires? Hmm publish better.
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Backpack wins Alaska’s Fat Bear Week
Backpack, a brown bear known for his calm demeanor, has won Fat Bear Week at Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve. The bear, officially designated Bear 89, received more than 100,000 votes and narrowly defeated Bear 910 with just over half of the final online vote, according to NBC News.
The annual single-elimination contest featured 16 bears and allowed the public to watch them on Explore.org livestream cameras before voting. Now in its 12th year, Fat Bear Week celebrates the roughly 2,200 brown bears living in the preserve and highlights how they build fat reserves to survive winter hibernation.
Backpack is the son of former champion Holly, who brought him to the Brooks River as a cub in 2006. His nickname came from his habit of climbing onto his mother’s back while they crossed the river. His contestant profile described him as relying on “quiet strength” rather than aggression.
The bears feed heavily on salmon returning to the Brooks River, sometimes eating as many as 30 fish a day. Large adult males can exceed 1,000 pounds before hibernation, during which they may lose one-third of their body weight. Backpack succeeds last year’s winner, Chunk, who was eliminateddefeated in the first round this year.
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