News Headline

With climate change, species are increasingly interbreeding to survive

Source
Public Radio International

Publication Date
2015-06-02

Some scientists and conservationists see the coywolf as a nightmare of the Anthropocene — a poster child of mongrelization as plants and animals reshuffle in response to habitat loss, climate change and invasive species. Golden-winged warblers increasingly cross with blue-winged warblers in the US Northeast and eastern Canada. Southern flying squirrels hybridize with northern flying squirrels as the southern species presses northward in Ontario. Polar bears mate with grizzlies in the Canadian Arctic along the Beaufort Sea to produce “pizzly bears.”

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http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-06-02/climate-change-species-are-increasingly-hybridizing-survive