Re: Grizzlies Move Into Polar Bear Turf On Hudson Bay

I listened to this report on Science Friday (NPR) Fascinating info -- particularly the fact that Grizz and Polar Bears can cross breed.

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I listened to this report on Science Friday (NPR) Fascinating info -- particularly the fact that Grizz and Polar Bears can cross breed.

What do they call the mix?

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Chocalate Crackle w/ teeth and hair.

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I listened to this report on Science Friday (NPR) Fascinating info -- particularly the fact that Grizz and Polar Bears can cross breed.

What do they call the mix?

See this link (no snickering, the bears don't like it):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly–polar_bear_hybrid



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/28/2010 12:58PM by szalkowski.

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I listened to this report on Science Friday (NPR) Fascinating info -- particularly the fact that Grizz and Polar Bears can cross breed.

Information on bear hybrids:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursid_hybrid



Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 02/28/2010 12:59PM by szalkowski.

There was a special on Nat Geo a couple months ago about a guy who was hunting I believe polar bears. He saw this bear and thought how weird it looked but would make a nice trophy, considering the coloration of the fir. Got in trouble because the authorities thought it was a grizzly, didn't have grizzly permit, ran lab test to determine it was a hybrid that had both polar and grizzly features.

Vanilla Fudge bear!

Again, szalkowski comes through:
"A grizzly–polar bear hybrid (also Pizzly bear, Prizzly bear or Grolar bear[1][2]) is a rare ursid hybrid that has occurred both in captivity and in the wild. In 2006, the occurrence of this hybrid in nature was confirmed by testing the DNA of a strange-looking bear that had been shot on Banks Island in the Canadian arctic.[3]

A number of polar bear hybrids are described as Ursid hybrids, a term that designates any hybrid of two species within the Ursidae family. Polar bear hybrids with Grizzly bears have been reported and shot in the past as well, but DNA techniques were not available to verify the bears' ancestry."

( I think I like "Prizzly" best)

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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
-- Carl Sagan