'Backpack' declared Alaska's Fat Bear Week winner
"Backpack" defeated a bear known only as "910" in the final round of the annual competition.
A brown bear known as 89 Backpack has won the annual Fat Bear Week competition, after what the US National Parks Service described as a "battle of size, skill, snack acquisition, and strategic loafing".
Backpack's wideness narrowly defeated a bear known only as 910, earning 103,344 votes to 910's 98,253 in the final round of the competition, which is run by the Katmai National Park in Alaska.
The National Parks Service thanked the 16 bears who "involuntarily participated" in the competition, now in its thirteenth year.
"I just feel like 910 really put in the work this year," another 910 fan wrote on the park's Facebook page, while a voter commented, "She round, she thick my girl 910 got my vote."