By Kieran Mulvaney, Seeker.com, May 26, 2016
Such hybrids may become more common as climate change forces polar bears to move inland.
An Inuit hunter may have shot a polar-bear grizzly hybrid last week — and while that’s an unusual thing right now, scientists believe that such genetic mixtures of the two closely related species will become more common as retreating sea ice forces more polar bears ashore and into brown bear territory.
The hunter, Didji Ishalook, shot the bear in the Canadian province of Nunavut, near Hudson Bay, in accordance with laws that allow Inuit to practice subsistence hunting.
