bear question
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From: keepemsharp
21-Jun-19
Has anyone on here ever heard of inter breeding of brown and black bears?
From: HA/KS
21-Jun-19
What do you mean by brown bear?
From: HA/KS
21-Jun-19
HA/KS's Link
I found this interesting article about crosses between bears and dogs. One came from near North Platte.
From: HA/KS
21-Jun-19
HA/KS's Link
"In 1859, a black bear and a European brown bear were bred together in the London Zoological Gardens, but the three cubs did not reach maturity. In The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication Charles Darwin noted:
In the nine-year Report it is stated that the bears had been seen in the Zoological Gardens to couple freely, but previously to 1848 most had rarely conceived. In the Reports published since this date three species have produced young (hybrids in one case),...[3]"
From: keepemsharp
21-Jun-19
Henry: good to hear from you, really miss ya on the joke thread on the now extinct CF forum. By brown bear I mean ursus arctos and the common black bear.
From: keepemsharp
21-Jun-19
Excuse me Henry: not ursus arctos but ursus horribilis>
From: HA/KS
21-Jun-19
I didn't find any known cases of a cross between Grizzly and Black bears. Black bears come in many colors from black to white.
I will really miss the Community Forum.
From: Shawn
21-Jun-19
They say polar and brown bear have bred. Shawn
From: HA/KS
21-Jun-19
Yes. The Green New Deal crowd wanted to use that as proof of global warming, but DNA data shows that they have interbred for a very long time. They are actually probably just two color phases of the same species.
From: Thornton
22-Jun-19
Not sure, but my guide in Colorado shot a 600lb black bear over a water hole. I had no idea they got that big.
From: Thornton
22-Jun-19
From: writer
22-Jun-19
Inland grizz and polar bears have been documented several times. Seems a grizz would as soon eat a black bear as mate with it.
From: HA/KS
22-Jun-19
writer, I would agree with the grizz :-)
From: Slate
22-Jun-19
This is a good one I saw yesterday hiking
From: Kansan
23-Jun-19
Very cool Todd!
