Grolar Bear/ Pizzly Bear

A Grolar Bear, otherwise known as a Pizzly Bear, is a bear hybrid of the Polar Bear, and the Grizzly Bear. The hybrids have features of both bear breeds, such as bodies smaller than a Polar Bear, and smaller than a Grizzly, and a face broader than a Grizzly but leaner than a Polar Bear. The most interesting thing about the Grolar bear, is that the hybrid has occurred both in captivity, and the wild. The hybrid in nature was discovered when licensed hunter, Jim Martell, shot a Grolar in Banks Island, Canada. The bear was believed to be a polar bear, but when it was shot and inspected, the body provoked many questions. The bear had the same fur as a polar bear, but had long claws, a humped back and patches of brown fur around the head and legs. A DNA test was completed and the bear was found to infect be a hybrid breed, never found in nature before. In 2010, this occurred again, when hunter David Kuptana, on Victoria Island, Canada, shot what he believed to be a polar bear. The bear provoked questions due to the grizzly shape head, long claws and humped back, and a DNA test was completed once again. The father of the bear was a Grizzly, but the mother of the bear was a Grizzly-Polar Hybrid. This was the first case of seeing a second generation Grolar/Pizzly Bear in the wild.

Grizzly–polar bear hybrid (2015) in Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly–polar_bear_hybrid (Accessed: 4 November 2015).