First Ever Wild Grizzly/Polar Hybrid Shot

tavilach writes "Jim Martell has a license to hunt polar bears, but when his latest kill had "white fur [that] was spotted brown and it had the long claws and slightly humped back of a grizzly," officials seized the body in order to conduct DNA tests. These tests confirm that the dead bear had a polar bear mother and grizzly father, the first documented grizzly-polar hybrid in the wild. This was lucky for Jim, who was facing a fine and jail time for possibly killing a grizzly. Scientists who would have liked to study the bear are not so lucky."

Good job...

[facelessnumber]

Now we'll never know what kind of mystical skills and powers it had.

Re:Good job...

[Anonymous Coward]

Cold Damage Resist +30 and Grizzly Maul lvl 8.

Re:Good job...

[RsG]

True. Does a hybrid bear shit in the woods, or on the ice flows? Inquiring minds want to know!

Re:Good job...

[FleaPlus]

Now we'll never know what kind of mystical skills and powers it had.

Indeed. We can assume that it was bred for its skils in magic, but was the magic divine, arcane, or perhaps even psionic?

Lovely for science...

[pdes]

But how does it taste?

Re:Good job...

[reddalek]

Apparently being able to avoid or dodge bullets isn't one of the skills.

The bear of DOOM

[Julian Morrison]

So what we're talking here is a species that hunts humans, mated with a species that's known for being grumpy, vicious and well nigh indestructible.

Thank god this guy killed it! Jail time heck, give the man a medal.

new name

[mayns]

The burning question: was it a Pizzly Bear or a Grolar Bear?

oblig

[lubricated]

It's pretty much my favorite animal.

Re:Good job...

[Thalin]

Apparently it couldn't stop bullets.

So typical!

[CODiNE]

genetic tests showed the bear had a polar bear for a mother and a grizzly bear for a father.

Those grizzlys... always going after the blondes.

Re:new name

[CptNerd]

It's called "you stand there naming it, I'm running thataway..."

Must be a really rare spawn

[Winlin]

I wonder what it drops? And if it's something good, when does it pop next?
Note to self...really gotta take a break from MMORPGs

Re:Good job...

[dgatwood]

Dunno, but as the old pun says... the easiest way to catch a polar bear is to cut a hole in the ice, then wait and hide. When the bear goes to the hole to catch some fish, sneak up from behind and kick him in the ice hole.

What does Hanso have to say about this?

[EddieBurkett]

Could this just be part of the "Repatriation Accelerated De-territorialization of Ursus Maritimus through gene therapy and extreme climate change?"

Re:Pathetic that this animal was shot...

[Dachannien]

But they're adorable and they like Coca-Cola. How could they possibly be vicious?

Re:oblig

[Anonymous Coward]

It's a Polizzly Bizzle fo' shizzle, my nizzle.

Re:Pathetic that this animal was shot...

[Anonymous Coward]

But they're adorable and they like Coca-Cola. How could they possibly be vicious?

Let me introduce you to my ex-girlfriend...

Re:oblig

[Anonymous Coward]

Please never post on /. ever again.

Re:So typical!

[Supurcell]

Yeah. As soon as they become the least bit successful, they turn their backs on their own kind and go find themselves a white bear.

Re:Was it a mule?

[Brandybuck]

that would explain how the polar bears survived the
previous warm periods (like the 8000 BC to 4000 BC "climate optimum").

Wow! Homo Sapiens was destroying the planet that far back?

I can explain it

[greg1104]

That might explain how a grizzly got to the region, but few can explain how it managed to get along with a polar bear long enough to mate.

Clearly none of the people speculating spend much time drinking. You can mate anything with enough Tequila.

Re:Was it a mule?

[grammar fascist]

Sure, but what are the chances of those fertile offspring breeding?

Given that polar bear / grizzly hybrids are usually made fun of by their peers and ostracized to the point of reclusiveness, I'd say none at all.

Slashdot geeks are fertile, but do you see them breeding? Same deal. Someone ought to hook these poor hybrid cubs up with HL2 so they have something to do in their parents' basements.

Re:Good job...

[stebe]

> True. Does a hybrid bear shit in the woods, or on the ice flows? Inquiring minds want to know!

I do not know where it poops, but I imagine the hybrid bear would have lower emissions than conventional bears.

Ursus maritimus + ursus horriblis= ursus prius

same domestic problems as humans

[sl4shd0rk]

"That might explain how a grizzly got to the region, but few can explain how it managed to get along with a polar bear long enough to mate."

alcohol

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Sounds like a job for Animal Of The Week

[Bertie]

Who needs Wikipedia when you've got this sort of expertise?

" animal of the week today is the polar bear which is pretty much the king of the animal kingdom because it is a cross of the best bits of a tiger, a shark and a Hulk Hogan. if you think that you can imagine how strong a polar bear is then think again because you are wrong. it is stronger than that and it is probably stronger than your next guess. we are talking about an animal that can leg press over 500kg and curl 200kg with ease. pretty much the only thing that it cant do is squat thrusts but they are gay anyway. polar bears have a furry bellend to protect it from the cold."

Animal Of The Week [animaloftheweek.co.uk]

Re:Good job...

[SEWilco]

Apparently it couldn't stop bullets.

It did stop bullets.

we'll never know

[aapold]

if it drank coca-cola or pepsi....

Re:I can explain it

[wkitchen]

That reminds me of a joke I heard long ago.

While working in Alaska, an oil worker from Texas decides he wants to try to fit in and be accepted by the locals. So, while at a bar, he asks what he would have to do to be considered a real Alaskan. A local fella tells him that there are three steps. First, he has to drink a pint of Alaskan whisky in a single draught. Second, he has to shoot a polar bear. And third, he has to make love to an Eskimo woman.

After downing the whisky, he wobbles out of the bar, banging into the door frame on the way out. In a few hours he returns with one boot, shredded clothing, bloody scrapes and gouges from head to toe, and missing an ear. He looks around then asks, "Now where's that Eskimo woman I'm supposed to shoot?".

From overlooked-irony dept

[carpeweb]

Scientists who would have liked to study the bear are not so lucky.

Well, they were luckier than the bear.

Kinda like a liger

[whoop]

... bred for their skills in magic.