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"I preferred the name pizzly bear," Dr. Lunn said.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Patrick White 2010
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In addition, the geographical proximity would make it more likely that polar and grizzly bears would produce hybrid offspring, labeled "pizzly," "prizzly," or "grolar" bears.
Discover Blogs 2010
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The story of the so-called "pizzly" that was shot in 2006 set off a flurry of stories around the world.
Latest Articles VancouverSun 2010
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And what of the prospect of grizzlies and polar bears begetting that epic beast, the "pizzly" or "grolar bear?"
Global Warming RSS Newsfeed info@ecologicalinternet.org (National Geographic: 2010
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In 2006, they said, scientists were startled to discover a "pizzly," or a hybrid of a grizzly bear and a polar bear, and in 2010, another bear shot dead by a hunter also was found to have mixed DNA.
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Polar bear-grizzly hybrids - known as either "pizzly" or "grolar" bears - are very rare.
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DNA-typing later confirmed - that the animal was a polar-grizzly hybrid, a creature known variously as a "pizzly" or "grolar bear."
latimes.com - News 2010
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It would join the list of other hybrid animals, including the liger (lion-tiger) and the pizzly (polar bear-grizzly).
Week in Words Erin McKean 2011
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A grolar, pizzly displayed at the Rothschild Museum, Tring, copyright Sarah Hartwell
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The images labelled grolar, pizzly on your page are actually polar-European brown bear, although the general type is representative of what a polar-grizzly would look like (since grizzlies are a type of brown bear).
alexz commented on the word pizzly
Polar grizzly bear hybrid
May 18, 2016
vendingmachine commented on the word pizzly
See nanulak.
May 18, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word pizzly
https://cdn.ampproject.org/c/grist.org/climate-energy/pizzlies-narlugas-and-other-creatures-from-our-weird-changing-world/amp/
Climate change is one strange matchmaker. Warmer temperatures have led to shifting habitats and shifting mating habits. And occasionally, when two bears collide, the result is neither grizzly nor polar, but pizzly.
June 8, 2016
Logophile77 commented on the word pizzly
n. A pizzly bear.
January 24, 2018