"Fat Bear of the Year" contest in Alaska...The winner is a mother bear who lost her baby.

On the Brooks River inside Katmai National Park in southern Alaska, bears are in the midst of a salmon hunt.

Katmai National Park selected the "best fat bear" among 2,200 Alaska brown bears living here on the 9th local time.

The Fat Bear of the Year, selected through online voting, is Grazer, an angry mother bear who lost her baby last summer.

The mother bear Grazer proudly won the final round of the competition, beating the male bear, Chunk, who killed her cub.

Grazer beat the chunk by more than 40,000 votes from fans who watched the online video, not because he was the fattest, but because he wanted to support his mother who lost her baby.

The brown bears inflate their weight by up to 50 percent from late June to October to prepare for hibernation, and the competition is selected through a popular vote against the 'fast-fat' bears, who have, in short, grown their size rapidly.

This is because brown bears have to survive with their stored energy while minimizing movement during winter when hunting is difficult.