Fat Bear Week winner is first-ever “working mum”

Since 2014, the annual online poll has celebrated the hundreds of Brown Bears who live in Alaska’s Katmai National Park.

Fat Bear Week winner is first-ever “working mum”

Alaskan Brown Bear ‘128 Grazer’ has been named the winner of Fat Bear Week for a second consecutive year.

Since 2014, thehas celebrated the hundreds of Brown Bears who live in Alaska’s Katmai National Park.

Fans vote for the bear they think did the best job to bulk up in preparation for their winter hibernation.

After winning last year, 128 Grazer gave birth to two cubs. This year’s win makes her “the first working mum to ever be crowned champion.”

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128 Grazer beat finalist ‘32 Chunk’ by more than 40,000 votes to win.

Katmai National Park acknowledged 128 Grazer’s “hard work raising a cub and feasting on salmon all summer long,” in a post to.

“Congrats to all the fat bears in Katmai, and thanks again to the salmon. Without healthy salmon, there would be no healthy, fat bears.”

Here’s Grazer’s transformation between July and September.

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