[skeptoid]

"PIZZLY" and "GROLAR" bears?!?

Several links int the text ant the source

(The Alaska Daily News was sold and is now the Alaska Dispatch News)

[BigEdLB]

Mama Griz, and her half-breed cubs

[TigersEye]

I recommend not calling a cross between a Polar Bear and a Grizzly Bear a Pizzly Bear. Not to its face.

[Tucker39]

It could be bad in this sense; If the hybrid offspring are sterile, as most if not all hybrids are, then each hybrid born represents the end of the line for that particular bloodline....as opposed to if the male that sired the hybrid had mated with on of his own type of bear.

I guess it depends on whether the two types, Grizzly and Polar, are close enough genetically that the progeny of a “mixed mating” are still sexually potent and not sterile.

[tbw2]

There are environmentalists who have become racists of various species. Save the orangutan, but don’t let the Sumantran orangutan breed with the one from Boreno or else you lose the unique “races”.

Orangutan Hybrid, Bred to Save Species, Now Seen as Pollutant
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/28/science/orangutan-hybrid-bred-to-save-species-now-seen-as-pollutant.html

[afsnco]

Reminds me of the tigons and ligers I’ve seen, as well as the zorses and zedonks.

[GeronL]

Many times, the hybrids are infertile aren’t they?

[dead]

In the 1970s, it is estimate that between 5,000 and 10,000 polar bears existed in the wild. Today, about 25,000 polar bears are known to exist worldwide.

They are not endangered.

[Hugin]

Neither polar bears nor grizzlies are endangered.

[Mike Darancette]

It is hard to envision a hybrid that is as successful in both environments of its gene donors.