jeceris Posted May 10, 2006 #1 Share Posted May 10, 2006 (edited) new type of bear discovered. this could maybe help the polar to survive the extinction they face with global warming and not being able to stay out on the ice flows until june. http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/20...rolar-bear.html Edited May 12, 2006 by Lottie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pax Unum Posted May 10, 2006 #2 Share Posted May 10, 2006 I wonder if it was sterile... you'd think this would have happened before... interesting story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frogfish Posted May 10, 2006 #3 Share Posted May 10, 2006 I wonder if it was sterile Probably was...Stupid officers were trying to charge him with the shooting of a grizzly... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pax Unum Posted May 10, 2006 #4 Share Posted May 10, 2006 (edited) Probably was...Stupid officers were trying to charge him with the shooting of a grizzly... yea, that was dumb, how'd he know it was a hybrid... Edited May 10, 2006 by Pax Unum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeenuh Posted May 11, 2006 #5 Share Posted May 11, 2006 maybe it just means the polar bears are adapting to not having tons of ice around? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pax Unum Posted May 11, 2006 #6 Share Posted May 11, 2006 or theres a grizzly bear out there, that only dates white bears.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeenuh Posted May 11, 2006 #7 Share Posted May 11, 2006 ROFL. maybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbieb Posted May 11, 2006 #8 Share Posted May 11, 2006 or maby the polar bears have jungel fever? no but seriosuly as i said inanother post its not unheard of for them to inter breed and some scientist belive that they are of the same species and just diffrent sub species. i belive this is the case i8 feel polar bears are a sub species of brown bear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the14u2cee Posted May 12, 2006 #9 Share Posted May 12, 2006 (edited) Roger Kuptana, an Inuit tracker from the Northwest Territories, suspected the American hunter he was guiding had shot a hybrid bear after noticing its white fur was spotted brown and it had the long claws and slightly humped back of a grizzly. Territorial officials seized the bear's body and a DNA test from Wildlife Genetics International, a lab in British Columbia, confirmed the hybrid was born of a polar bear mother and grizzly father. ``It's something we've all known was theoretically possible because their habitats overlap a little bit and their breeding seasons overlap a little bit,'' said Ian Stirling, a biologist with the Canadian Wildlife Service in Edmonton, Alberta. ``It's the first time it's known to have happened in the wild.'' He said the first person to realize something was different about the bear - shot and killed last month on the southern end of Banks Island in the Beaufort Sea - was Kuptana, the guide. ``These guides know their animals and they recognized that there were a number of things that didn't look quite right for a polar bear,'' Stirling told The Associated Press. The bear's eyes were ringed with black, its face was slightly indented, it had a mild hump to its back and long claws. http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story######p.../2007730458.htm Edited May 12, 2006 by the14u2cee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evil_E.T Posted May 12, 2006 #10 Share Posted May 12, 2006 cool so is this a golar bear or a prizlly bear and is it sterile cos arnet other hybrids sterile? so many questions... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the14u2cee Posted May 12, 2006 #11 Share Posted May 12, 2006 cool so is this a golar bear or a prizlly bear and is it sterile cos arnet other hybrids sterile? so many questions... Sorry, i forgot to add the site, its on there now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamsquatty Posted May 12, 2006 #12 Share Posted May 12, 2006 it wasnt an albino grizzly bear, right? it was proven to be a mixed polar/grizzly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pax Unum Posted May 12, 2006 #13 Share Posted May 12, 2006 theres a similar thread in the Nature forum... where this should be... LINK-> grolar bear shot-cross between grizz and pola, bear mixed marriages...hmmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lottie Posted May 12, 2006 #14 Share Posted May 12, 2006 the14u2cee, I have merged your thread with this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the14u2cee Posted May 12, 2006 #15 Share Posted May 12, 2006 the14u2cee, I have merged your thread with this one. Thank You LOTTIE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeenuh Posted May 13, 2006 #16 Share Posted May 13, 2006 or maby the polar bears have jungel fever? no but seriosuly as i said inanother post its not unheard of for them to inter breed and some scientist belive that they are of the same species and just diffrent sub species. i belive this is the case i8 feel polar bears are a sub species of brown bear uh, i believe they said that it was uncommon because polar bears mate on the ice and grizzily bears mate on the ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbieb Posted May 13, 2006 #17 Share Posted May 13, 2006 ok think aobut that for a second now there ranges over lap and ther breeding seasons over lap so there u go. second it has happed in zoos before. and polar bears dont have the ice sheets in spring it melts so they are on solid ground too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Immortal Norway Posted May 14, 2006 #18 Share Posted May 14, 2006 Cool, a bear with the eleganse of a polarbear and the frightness of a grizzly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frogfish Posted May 14, 2006 #19 Share Posted May 14, 2006 It looks like a polar bear... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbieb Posted May 14, 2006 #20 Share Posted May 14, 2006 a funny name would be pizzly bear and yea looksl iek a polar bear with small spots of brown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frogfish Posted May 15, 2006 #21 Share Posted May 15, 2006 Polargrizz...yuck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaknelson Posted May 15, 2006 #22 Share Posted May 15, 2006 (edited) I seem to see panda eyes on it, a beauty, tis a shame it is shot dead. Edited May 15, 2006 by Kaknelson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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