Cruel joke can turn deadly for predator now too visible to both prey and poachers.
He confessed that he and a friend cannibalised another member of their group who died in the extreme cold, say investigators.
Alexei Gorulenko confessed to keeping himself alive by eating human flesh, but denied killing Olga Kurochkina's husband.
Often bears encroaching towns are shot, but in Dalnegorsk they spared the life of 'too friendly' wild animal.
Pictures prove the gruesome fate of reindeer 'to meet demands for traditional medicines in China and South Korea'.
The rare predator was caught after weeks of wandering into a village in Russian Far East.