Meet your winner of the 2023 Fat Bear Week Contest

After votes from around the country and world were tallied, Alaska's Katmai National Park has crowned this year's Fat Bear Week champion.

Transcript

00:00 It's official we have a winner for this year's Cat May National Park and Preserves annual fat bear week

00:06 After the contest online

00:10 Grazer was crowned the 2023 champion with more than a hundred eight thousand votes

00:16 She's a defensive mama bear who has raised two litters of cubs and often confronts and attacks

00:22 much larger bears to protect her young

00:25 The runner-up was chunk who got 23,000 votes last year's champion

00:31 747 was eliminated in the first round

00:35 disqualified for eating too many salmon

00:37 (laughing)