Beadnose is a mamabearwho loves chowing down on sockeye salmon in Alaska ’s scenic Katmai National Park and Preserve . Now , thanks to her fondness for food , she ’s the champion of this twelvemonth ’s Fat Bear competition , Smithsonianreports .
Each fall since 2014 , the park has organizedthe competitionon social medium to highlight the gluttonous fashion in which the preserve ’s 2000 - plus brown bear start bulk up for wintertime . The bears eat everything they can get their paws on and intumesce to their heaviest weight in October to prepare for hibernation .
This yr , Beadnose ( who go by the number 409 ) was the fan favorite , having invite the most “ likes ” on Facebook when up against other bears in the square bracket - style contest . As the fresh heavyweight champion , she receives “ stronger chances of live through the wintertime , ” accord to the park’ssocial media business relationship .
“ Bears must exhaust one yr ’s worth of food for thought in six scant month to exist hibernation , and 409 has excelled at that , ” the park writes . “ Her refulgent rolls were view as by the voting public to be this twelvemonth ’s most fabulous flab . Our chubby title-holder has a few more hebdomad to chow down on lingering Salmon River carcase before she heads up the heap to dig out herself a den and savor her triumph . ”
She beat out 11 other contenders chosen by car park staff , include the aptly named Chunk and former fat bear maven Otis , whose body has been described as “ sea horse - shaped ” by buff , according toOutside . The park says Beadnose “ emancipate ” her two lad ahead of time in the summertime , so she enjoy the reward of not suffer to share her intellectual nourishment .
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