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The mixing of a grizzly and a polar bear in the wild was the stuff of legend until Canadian hunting guide Roger Kuptana’s discovery of a groler in 2006. 

While grolers have been bred in captivity for some time, polar bears in the wild prefer to mate on ice while grizzlies mate on land. But when Kuptana and the hunter he was guiding came across a polar bear with brown patches and the long claws and humped back of a grizzly, he knew right away what it was. 

DNA testing confirmed what may be the first documented case of a groler born in the wild.

Read more: Unusual Animals - Animal Hybrids at WomansDay.com - Woman's Day 

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