of course reasearchers, in the Audobon tradition shot the only one they knew of.

• Posted at 9:51 AM | By  Yukkione

l o c you took my very words! asswipe (not you, l o c, the 'sport' hunter that killed the bear)

my favorite animal you are wondering? well i don't know - hard to say, but THIS comes close!

• Posted at 10:41 AM | By  Unknown

try this link instead

• Posted at 10:42 AM | By  Unknown

Rose i saw an old film of the last know one of those in captivity. pacing back and forth in a small cage,, quite sad.

• Posted at 11:24 AM | By  Yukkione

All of this breeding going on...

About the liger/pizzly: this says a lot about "species" too--ligers have produced tigligers and litigons and such suggesting that they're the same species rather than "hybrids". The very idea of this guy being a hybrid suggests that there are "pure" Grizzlies and "pure" Polars.

Darwin would call these "races" of course.

Nevertheless, this suggests that indeed, animal variability is a lot less than we might think!

I'm starting to think that all species evolve a helluva lot faster than we typically think.

Thanks for this post--I'm bookmarking that link.

• Posted at 2:56 PM | By  Anonymous

well of course the idiots shot the ONLY one...geez...unreal....and thanks LOC for finding this- beautiful....but so sad... ( of course if they had caught it , it would have just bee held captive and caged and pacing -like that last tasmanian wolf...)

• Posted at 4:00 PM | By  enigma4ever

I hate shit like this. I have a bear den on my property and cubs were born there. I don't mess with them, and they just live. Now that the area is becoming so developed with mcmansions at every turn, it is sad that they have few places to go. I like to think they have sanctuary in their spot. But I know better. The other bear had its home blasted out by dynamite.

• Posted at 9:12 PM | By  Lily

How sad we shoot first and gather evidence to support said shooting later...

A Pizzly bear...

Guess that'd make GW a Bushkey. Eh?

• Posted at 12:59 AM | By  Mark Prime (tpm/Confession Zero)

yes the film is on the first site i tried to link to. for some reason it will NOT allow me to cut and paste the link and when i typed it out it just didn't work. it was sad indeed.

• Posted at 2:31 AM | By  Unknown

I'm outraged that they killed it the bastards! Hunters suck...they just cannot let something live. I lived in the State of Washington (4.5 yrs.)and out in the country. Hunters will come from the cities onto peoples property (disregarding 'no hunting signs') and shoot whatever moves. I always had to see to it that my dogs were locked in, because they'll kill your dogs too. They will trespass your property and cut your fencing that keeps horses and cattle within your property just for the sake of getting onto your land to hunt Bambi or his elk uncle.
I got into verbal hunter fights...it was good that I left and came back to California. Hunters...BAH!

• Posted at 4:54 AM | By  sumo

What is so sporting about shooting such a beautiful animal? As far as Im concerned the wrong species got shot!!!!!!!

• Posted at 12:04 AM | By  EAPrez