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Joel
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In 2006 hunters shot a white bear that had brown patches in its fur. DNA tests indicated that the animal that had lived in the Arctic region was a hybrid, a descendant of a grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) and a polar bear (Ursus maritimus). Known as pizzly, prizzly or grolar bears, they are increasingly being spotted in the wild. Four years later, for instance, a hunter in Canada killed another of these hybrids.
Conservationists are afraid that polar bears
might eventually die off as a distinct species if they keep on mating with
grizzlies.n 2006 hunters shot a white
bear that had brown patches in its fur. DNA tests indicated that the animal
that had lived in the Arctic region was a hybrid, a descendant of a grizzly
bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) and a polar bear (Ursus maritimus). Known as pizzly,
prizzly or grolar bears, they are increasingly being spotted in the wild. Four
years later, for instance, a hunter in Canada killed another of these hybrids.
Now, scientist have found them all along the Artic
Circle,
According to
evolution. Grizzly bears and
polar bears only diverged 500,000 to 600,000 years ago, so they might produce
viable offspring,
Conservationists are afraid that polar bears
might eventually die off as a distinct species if they keep on mating with
grizzlies.
While the grizzly bear and the polar
bear are distinct species, they belong to the same Genesis kind.
Likewise, lions and tigers belong to the same biblical kind.
Source: :
Turner Ben. 2021,'Pizzly' bear hybrids are
spreading across the Arctic thanks to climate change Live Science 24 april
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