Black Grizzlies II

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Hmmmph... tried to post this earlier and the webpage screwed up somehow...


Anyway what I meant to say is that in the Swan Hills of central Alberta there are some grizzlies that are jet black, they look like XXL black bears until you look closer. I have seen one of these bears myself and you do a double take when you see one. It's hard to believe you're looking at a grizzly.

One of the guys from work has been out looking to get a big black bear and the other day he saw a huge black bear that he figured would go 8 to 8-1/2'. The bear was 600 yards out when he first saw it so he (and 2 buddies) stalked to 150 yards. The one guy was getting ready to shoot when the animal turned and they saw the huge shoulder hump and the bear looked towards them at the same time and the saw the huge round head and so they were able to sneak back away from the bear with no harm done.

So if you're cruising the Swan Hills and you see a XXL black bear, make darn sure it really is a black bear before you shoot!!
 
The father of one of my students shot a large "black bear" on his farm Sunday night. The kid was showing the pictures of it all over school Monday morning. Fish and Wildlife paid a call to the farm in the afternoon and retrieved the carcass of a hump shouldered "black bear" with eight inch claws. OOPS.
 
canucklehead said:
Do bears interbreed?

Is is possibly a half-blackie, half-grizz?
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YES!!!!!! They do!!!! I shot one of these cross breeds 2 years ago. I actually phoned the CO and told them about it they came and looked at it and were baffled! It looked like a black bear only the paws and claws were huge! its head looks like a blacky but it had a brown underbelly.

In areas that are heavly populated with both blackys and Grizz you will see cross breeds. Hell look at that Polar/Grizz cross that was shot last year! It proves it!
ttyal
Riley
 
that bear(s) wont be around for long. Someone will take him thinking it was a blackie. I would think it would be pretty hard to tell if he had a hump if he was in thick bush walking away, the black might make that hump blend in more with his body.
 
death-junky said:
YES!!!!!! They do!!!! I shot one of these cross breeds 2 years ago. I actually phoned the CO and told them about it they came and looked at it and were baffled! It looked like a black bear only the paws and claws were huge! its head looks like a blacky but it had a brown underbelly.

In areas that are heavly populated with both blackys and Grizz you will see cross breeds. Hell look at that Polar/Grizz cross that was shot last year! It proves it!
ttyal
Riley
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Show us some pics, I would love to see it :eek:
 
WTF!!.....Grizz breading a blacky??

Grizzly eat Black bear!
In '81 I was up in Knights Inlet where I watched a smallish Grizz kill a similar sized (large) sow blacky. The grizz dispatched the blacky in less than a minute and did it with enthusiasm. The grizz just left the carcass.
A few days later the carcass was still there so I inspected it to see if something was wrong...Other than being bloated and beat up it looked like (it was) a very healthy bear.

Maybe it's just an Alberta thing....Too long in the oil patch and any old sow looks good! :D :D :D
 
Demonical said:
The extremely rare cross-bred Polar-Grizz does not prove a damn thing.

Black bears and grizzlies do not interbreed! :rolleyes:
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shows what you know!
You don't think a horny old Braun grizz would squrew a black bear sow if it got the chance????
And i only have photos of the bear anyone have a scanner?
Just come to the Kitimat Vally and you will see how many grizzlys and black bears there are. When i can go out in one weekend and count 12 grizzlys all in diffrent areas.... There is probebly some crossing going on!
Oh and by the way i got off with only a writen warning because they couldn't prove it was a griz.
ttyal
Riley
 
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