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."

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Re:trophy "hunters"

[Bing Tsher E]

And now, because this "hunter" didn't know the value of this animal, it is dead before it could be studied further and / or protected.

Yes. The true tragedy in this incident is that 'scientists' didn't have time to write a handful of grant proposals to 'study' it.