Coverage dated October 4, 2022 to October 11, 2022
Fat Bear Week has a 2022 winner
Headline from KRDO, on the newest of 3 developments
Originally Published: 11 OCT 22 11:19 ET Updated: 12 OCT 22 08:56 ET By Marnie Hunter and Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) -- There's a new champion brown bear in Alaska's Katmai National Park & Preserve. After an online cheating scandal disrupted the semifinals, a winner was announced Tuesday night, Octobe…
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Fat Bear Week 2022: Meet this year's chunky challengers competing for the top spot
Headline from Foxla ·
Thousands Vote to Crown Fat Bear Week's 2022 Chonk Champion
Bears are preparing for hibernation, and the public gets to judge a chosen sleuth of bears who have been packing on the pounds for this year's Fat Bear Week competition.
It’s March Madness for fans of the lumbering brown bears in Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve. Already, tens of thousands of votes were cast for Fat Bear Week to find this year’s biggest heavyweight from what the park calls “some of the largest brown bears on Earth.”
The park says its virtual ballot box was stuffed in Sunday's semifinal, won by the mammoth 747 — who faces a young upstart female named 901 in the final.
Originally Published: 11 OCT 22 11:19 ET Updated: 12 OCT 22 08:56 ET By Marnie Hunter and Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) -- There's a new champion brown bear in Alaska's Katmai National Park & Preserve. After an online cheating scandal disrupted the semifinals, a winner was announced Tuesday night, Octobe…
The popularity contest started to raise awareness about the brown bears of Alaska's Katmai National Park. As the bears gain weight for winter hibernation, internet fans vote for their favorite.
