See, it's funny because the bear in the water is a polar bear.
In chemistry, polar means one side of the species (molecule, usually) has a slight positive charge, and the other side a slight negative charge. This means the polar molecule will attract to water which is also polar.
Non-polar bears (brown bears, black bear, spectacled bears, koala bears, gummi bears) wouldn't dissolve in water.
Though they should be careful about swimming in cyclohexane because it's non-polar, so non-polar solutes would dissolve in it.
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