Fewer bears in the Siberian region of Tomsk this year are waking from hibernation and hungrily raiding remote villages and towns scavenging for food.

The unusual swimmer stunned fishermen who said they never saw bears venturing so far out to sea.

Hunters’ fury as a wild beast makes off with a box filled with their picnic.

The large bear falls on its back and waves paws in the air in exact copy of the whale’s moves.

Our map shows the attacks by bears on humans across a swathe of Siberia and the Russian Far East.

Hungry beast’s attack seen by anglers on other shore who shouted to warn him, but could do nothing to help.

Lame, exhausted and confused animal seeks out help from the local police in Olyutorsky district of Kamchatka.

A gnawed to bones killer whale found by a nature reserve ranger.

Beast was seen daily on roadside begging for food from humans, but he fell for a cabbage pie bait and was returned to wild.

The animal got into a habit of visiting rubbish dumps on remote Novaya Zemlya, say researchers.