Two-peat Fat Bear Week winner Grazer sort of avenged the death of her cub, who was killed last summer by her finalist opponent, Chunk, besting the aggressive male by more than 40,000 votes, the Associated Press reports on a symbolic recompense for the loss of Grazer’s offspring.
The murder of Grazer’s cub… which might have been more like a mercy killing since it happened after the youngling had fallen off a waterfall, was unrelated to the murder of Bear 402 by 469 that postponed the beginning of the Katmai National Park’s annual Fat Bear Week contest.