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xchrom

(108,903 posts)
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 07:11 AM Jun 2014

A Promiscuous Brown Bear May Be Castrated For Sleeping Around Too Much

http://www.businessinsider.com/brown-bear-faces-castration-for-limiting-genetic-diversity-2014-6


Pyros (not pictured) needs no wingman.

While most brown bears quit the mating game at age 19, one 26-year-old male named Pyros is still going strong.

Scientists worry that Pyros' friskiness is threatening the survival of his colony by limiting genetic diversity. Environmental officials said the bear may need to be sterilized or removed from the wild to prevent further inbreeding.

Pyros is one of 30 brown bears in a colony that lives in the Pyrenees mountains on the border between Spain and France.

Pyros has fathered so many offspring that he "is the father, grandfather or great-grandfather of nearly all of the cubs born in the Pyrenees over the past two decades," Ashifa Kassam wrote in the Guardian.



Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/brown-bear-faces-castration-for-limiting-genetic-diversity-2014-6#ixzz34EYMRUbw
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A Promiscuous Brown Bear May Be Castrated For Sleeping Around Too Much (Original Post) xchrom Jun 2014 OP
What will this do to traditional bear marriage? shenmue Jun 2014 #1
Sure - blame the male bear liberal N proud Jun 2014 #2
#notallbears Schema Thing Jun 2014 #3
Is this what Colbert fears? nt valerief Jun 2014 #4
Joni Ernst and Sarah Palin finally have a useful task to do Blue Owl Jun 2014 #5
Article says sterilized, not castrated -- there is a difference. eppur_se_muova Jun 2014 #6
It's just sad The2ndWheel Jun 2014 #7
If only they'd apply the same rules to humans. Nihil Jun 2014 #8

eppur_se_muova

(36,227 posts)
6. Article says sterilized, not castrated -- there is a difference.
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 01:33 PM
Jun 2014

NOTE: I *am* aware that reporters write articles, editors write headlines.

The2ndWheel

(7,947 posts)
7. It's just sad
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 03:36 PM
Jun 2014

We seem to have to try and control everything. Let the bears do what the bears do. Not enough that we push them from habitats, now we're trying to make their genetic choices for them.

 

Nihil

(13,508 posts)
8. If only they'd apply the same rules to humans.
Wed Jun 11, 2014, 03:57 AM
Jun 2014

Cue the indignant "But We're Special!" and "It's Their Right To Breed Like Yeast!" protesters in 3 .. 2 ..


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