Rare Family of Hybrid ‘Grolar’ Bears Found in Canadian Arctic

Rare Family of Hybrid ‘Grolar’ Bears Found in Canadian Arctic
Eight grolars—polar-grizzly bear hybrids— live in Canada's Arctic. The family of bears are the only grolars known to exist in the world. GNWT/Jodie Pongracz
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Canada is home to the world’s only known group of “grolars,” a family of eight polar and grizzly bear hybrids that live in the Far North, according to a newly published study.

A team of North American researchers studied 819 wild grizzly and polar bears across Canada, Alaska, and Greenland, to determine if the two species of bears were regularly intermingling.

Jennifer Cowan
Jennifer Cowan
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Jennifer Cowan is a writer and editor with the Canadian edition of The Epoch Times.