Polar bears have taken over an abandoned Soviet polar research station on a small island off Russia’s far northeastern cost.<\/p>\n
Vadim Makhorov, a travel blogger, used a drone to film the bears roaming in and out of the facility’s scattered buildings in the late summer Arctic sun this month on Kolyuchin Island in the Chukchi Sea.<\/p>\n
One snapped at the drone as it approached.<\/p>\n
Others playfully poked their heads out of the buildings as they were filmed.<\/p>\n
“I think they see these houses as shelter from the wind, rain and other things,” Mr Makhorov told Reuters.<\/p>\n
“In general, they get along fine there.”<\/p>\n
Scientists left the research station, which is in an abandoned village, soon after the Soviet Union’s collapse over three decades ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Polar bears have taken over an abandoned Soviet polar research station on a small island off Russia’s far…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-163119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}