Polar and grizzly bear hybrid, one was just shot:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/special_events/green_week/article1133172.ece

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00482/GRIZZLY_380x250_482493a.jpg

Imagine if someone was able to capture them on film while mating, that would be a big hit on National Geography!

Wow, but surely it should be called a Pizzly bear, no sense humour those boffins.

Wild born ??

If so, it may very well be the future of the polar bear.. the only way to persevere.

Yeah, that's what the article said. The reason for such a hybrid is global warming and that is the way for polar bears to survive...

Yeah, that's what the article said. The reason for such a hybrid is global warming and that is the way for polar bears to survive...

Heh.. sorry, I should have read it :o

The question now is: Can they reproduce ? Are offspring of Grizzlies and Polar bear sterile or not ?

Apparently they are !

"Stirling said polar bears and grizzlies have been successfully paired in zoos and that their offspring are fertile.."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/11/ap/tech/mainD8HHQ9BO0.shtml