Bear Facts

Remember that cute polar bear trapped on a tiny remaining slab of ice? But that was filmed in August, when the Alaskan ice melts anyway. In case you didn't know, polar bears can swim.

So they just swim to the nearest land, which is always extremely close at hand. Polar bears never wander out far across the frozen sea only to be left stranded and in danger of drowning when the season of the year changes.

Plenty of other things eat us opportunistically. But uniquely (or as good as - if there is another example, then I have never heard of it), the polar bear actively seeks out man as a prey.