(2018-06-16, 01:06 PM)tim Wrote: As to the second animal (from just the picture) at first I thought it was a half starved bear until I saw the foot. However, that would have been very quickly established if that had been the case so I don't know.
My first thought when I saw those pictures was: can dogs (or wolves) mate with bears?
Apparently not. But then there have been strange cases, such as this Russian "bear dog":
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http://www.macroevolution.net/bear-dog-hybrids.html
From a website of, supposedly, a PhD in genetics