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Synonyms for grolar or Related words with grolar
pizzly
sackerson
guzzy
ursid
braumoeller
ailurops
actresssilver
mossycoat
ursidae
parapatry
brigsby
nyanzachoerus
micronyx
amargastegos
palaeoryctidae
araripesaurus
paleospecies
meleagrididae
chapalmalania
saurodontid
ossifragus
parictis
hesperocyon
pachysuchus
gobipipus
pareiasauridae
tremarctos
nedoceratops
pediomyid
waheela
teyuwasu
marsican
lophorothon
jollytail
waitoreke
patronym
holocephalid
glecia
trogosus
kalubu
chenanisuchus
meridiungulate
eshaunte
ornitholithus
pylzowi
wehrdienst
barytherium
metoposaurid
irgisensis
plesiomorphies
Examples of "grolar"
Several names were suggested for this specimen. The Idaho hunter who killed it, Jim Martell, suggested polargrizz. The biologists of the Canadian Wildlife Service suggested
grolar
or pizzly, as well as nanulak, an elision of the Inuit "nanuk" (polar bear) and "aklak" (grizzly or brown bear). Both
grolar
and pizzly were used by the Canadian Broadcast Corporation in widely distributed stories.
A hybrid between grizzly bears and polar bears has also been recorded. Known commonly as a pizzly, prizzly, or
grolar
bear, the official name is simply "grizzly–polar bear hybrid".
Zoo Osnabrück is located in south Osnabrück at the hillside of Schölerberg in Osnabrück, Germany. It was founded under the name "Heimattiergarten", and opened during the summer of 1936. Almost 3000 animals from ca 300 species can be seen on the land. It is famous for housing the
Grolar
Bear. This brought about many scientific inquiries into the zoo.
A grizzly–polar bear hybrid (also named
grolar
bear, pizzly bear) is a rare ursid hybrid that has occurred both in captivity and in the wild. In 2006, the occurrence of this hybrid in nature was confirmed by testing the DNA of a unique-looking bear that had been shot near Sachs Harbour, Northwest Territories on Banks Island in the Canadian Arctic.
The naming of hybrid animals depends on the sex and species of the parents. The father giving the first half of his species' name and the mother the second half of hers. (I.e. a pizzly bear has a polar bear father and grizzly bear mother whereas a
grolar
bear's parents would be reversed.)
Since the 2006 discovery placed the hybrid into the spotlight, the media have referred to this animal with several portmanteau names, such as "pizzly", "
grolar
bear", and "polizzly", but there is no consensus on the use of any one of these terms. Canadian wildlife officials have suggested calling the hybrid "nanulak", taken from the Inuit names for polar bear "(nanuk)" and grizzly bear "(aklak)".
A grizzly–polar bear hybrid (known as a "pizzly bear" or "
grolar
bear") is a rare ursid hybrid resulting from a union of a brown bear and a polar bear. It has occurred both in captivity and in the wild. In 2006, the occurrence of this hybrid in nature was confirmed by testing the DNA of a strange-looking bear that had been shot in the Canadian arctic. Previously, the hybrid had been produced in zoos, and was considered a "cryptid" (a hypothesized animal for which there is no scientific proof of existence in the wild).
By one convention, the name of the sire comes first in such combinations: the offspring of a male polar bear and a female grizzly would be the suggested "nanulak" or a "pizzly bear", while the offspring of a male grizzly and a female polar bear would be a "
grolar
bear" or possibly an "aknuk". If the remains of MacFarlane's 1864 specimenwhich was validly described according to ICZN ruleswere traced and confirmed to be such a hybrid by ancient DNA techniques, the scientific name "Ursus × inopinatus" would be available for these animals.