POLAR BEAR – GRIZZLY BEAR HYBRID, CROSS-SPECIES BEAR MATING, CANADA NORTHWEST TERRITORIES
April 1st, 2006
BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa
CANADIAN scientists have confirmed a hybrid bear born of a grizzly bear and a polar bear was recently killed by a sports-hunter in Canada's Northwest Territories (NWT). The bear was a creamy polar bear colour but also had long claws, a humped back, shallow face and brown patches around its eyes and nose: grizzly traits.
The unoffically named "grolar bear" or "pizzly" is the first crossbred polar and grizzly bear discovered in the wild. Experts cannot explain the union but think it was simply because a male grizzly ...
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