Kicker - Polar bear bachelor pad

NICK EICHER, HOST: Here’s a story that’ll give new meaning to “bachelor pad.”

Has to do with an old Russian weather station—way up north—long abandoned by humans and recently discovered by, shall we say, by creatures more habituated to the climate.

Nature photographer Dmitry Kokh traveled more than 12,000 miles to reach it. He talked to Fox News:

KOKH: Polar bears are very curious animals. They trying to get inside every building, inside every open door, or open window.

That’s right, polar bears! They made themselves at home inside these Soviet-era buildings.

To photograph them, Kohk uses a drone with low noise output so he doesn’t disturb them.

The images are really something, especially when you consider they are a threatened species and difficult to find.

KOKH: Very huge, very smart and beautiful animal. It’s so cool to photograph this animal.

Kohk and crew saw 30 bears, mostly male, hanging out in their man cave.

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