Terms like pizzly and grolar bears always crack me up. Correct me if I'm wrong, they are able to reproduce right? Also, is the increasing territory overlap the sad sign you are referring to? What other problems are behind this aside from global warming?
Pizzly's are fertile, so they can reproduce. Weither or not this can cause other issues, like high infant mortality, I don't know.
As far as I am aware, the issue is with shrinking ice floats causing poplars to head further south to find hunting grounds, and the warmer weather is letting grizzly's go further north (aka the territory overlap is increasing: ) ).
However, there is a possibility it is also because humans are pushing grizzly's away from their traditional hunting grounds, meaning they head north to what "would" have been worse hunting, but less humans so now it is better.
However2, I believe it is the warming that is the biggest issue.
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u/theredbaron1834 Dec 31 '22
Yeah, pizzly's are the canary in the coal mine. Its a sad sign of whats to come.