the truth about polar bears

Watching Ice Worlds from Disc 2 of the amazing BBC Planet Earth DVDs and I am astounded to learn that arctic polar bears, after an initial few weeks with their mother learning the tricks of the trade, wander around the vast wilderness of the arctic by themselves for the rest of their lives! How awful! And then they showed this polar bear who had to swim for days on end because the ice was melting too fast (global warming and all), so he was exhausted and about to starve until he came upon this massive group of walruses sitting on an island. I’m thinking, OK, it’s on now, buffet time. But those damn walruses weigh over a ton each and have crazy sharp fangs (tusks?) and can you believe that the bear couldn’t overcome any of the walruses? That just rocks my whole mental map of the animal kingdom…aren’t bears supposed to be bad asses? You’d think a bear could take down a walrus no problem, I mean walruses don’t even have feet or arms for gosh sake. They’re all blubber. I’m very disappointed in bears tonight. They are anti-social sissies. I bet if two or three of them teamed up, they could take a walrus down easy.