Congratulations, Holly!
Holly!! Photo: Katmai National Park & Preserve After weeks of hard work, of meticulously combing the waters of the Brooks River in Alaska’s Katmai National Park, and gorging herself on thousands of pounds of sockeye salmon, 435 Holly has been named the winner of the 2019 Fat Bear Week contest. Congratulations, Holly. I love you.
The competition was launched back in 2015, and has been gaining in popularity ever since: More than 187,000 votes were cast this year, over triple last year’s total. In the final round, Holly received around 17,500, trouncing her enormous runner up, Lefty, who got about 3,600. According to the PDF of Bears of Brooks River 2019 — which I do recommend you read in its entirety — Holly is a medium-sized blonde bear whose coat darkens in the fall “and can be described as the color of a toasted marshmallow.” Gorgeous. She has mothered at least four litters of cubs, and back in 2015, she also adopted a yearling cub who had been abandoned by his mother.
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