Meet Backpack, the Chunky Bear Who Won Fat Bear Week
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Backpack, a brown bear in Alaska's Katmai National Park, won the annual Fat Bear Week competition by narrowly defeating Bear 910 with 103,344 votes to 98,253 in the final round of the online contest run by the US National Park Service.
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