Big cat Tikhon refused to be scared away by warning shots as veteran alpha male makes clear he wants to come in from the wild.

Young tigress died from 'prolonged hypothermia and exhaustion' after fears mother was shot by poachers.

A murder probe had been launched after Stepan Ludannyi went missing.

Endangered Amur tigers are protected under President Vladimir Putin's special project.

Parents concerned about their children from huge wild cat  - or more than one - on the loose, with another terrorising Solontsovy village.

Driver spots big cat at side of busy road, alerts police, and young male is tranquillised.

Up to 500 mother bears a year give birth on remote Wrangel island, also the last place to see woolly mammoths.

The rare predator was caught after weeks of wandering into a village in Russian Far East.