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Jun

Pizzly bear - half polar, half grizzly.

My brother Geoff watched a documentary on BBC about a Pizzly bear.

Normally, polar bears and grizzly bears would have never crossed paths. Polar bears live in the Arctic, sleep during the summer and hunt during the winter. By contrast, grizzly bears live far south of the Arctic where the grass is green. They eat during the summer and sleep during the winter.

In 2006, the first natural bred offspring between these two species was shot dead by a hunter.

(Stuffed Pizzly, property of hunter. Photo from here.)

The find stunned people. Some raged against the Canadian government for allowing 500 polar bears to be killed for sport a year. (Hunting grizzlies are illegal, hence the legality of his catch was debated.) Most were alarmed by the visual, concrete proof of global warming.

We’re yet to find out if pizzlies would be the first of many mutant species that would adapt to this rapidly changing climate. We’re also yet to find if we, the human race, would change as the world changes, one freak show at a time.

(Read more about it here)

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6 Responses to “Pizzly bear - half polar, half grizzly.”

Joy Says:

Here’s a link to the article about the blue whale & fin whale hybrid:

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119942734/abstract

A National Geographic documentary (http://www.amazon.com/National-Geographic-Kingdom-Whale-Blu-ray/dp/B001OSC4GA) mentioned that scientists think blues and fin whales are mating because of their diminishing numbers and the lack of finding mates.

June 29th, 2009 at 8:05 am

Craig Says:

I had heard about that, but thought it was called a grolar bear.

My favourite intermix has got to be the giraffotamus