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In the article,”Bear Necessities: Climate Change Sends Grizzlies To Mate With Polar Cousins,”Adam Popescu says that polar bear and grizzly bears are mating. The question is then, asked why is the two different crossbreeds mating?? He claims that the Polar Bears and, Grizzly Bears are mating because they both share closer territories to each other as well as the same DNA. Leading their mixing to be boosted by the climate change that affects the warming of the earth’s atmosphere. But, the according to Researchers they found out that with all this crossbreeding that have been going on this might be the end for polar bears. Although, a professor named Andrew notices that the polar bears need ice in order to survive, they don’t hibernate like grizzlies
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