Orphaned female, attracted by smell of food, spent several months at the shift workers’s base.
A dramatic operation in biting cold of minus 41C saved elephants Magda and Jenny from death after a fire in the trailer carrying them across Siberia.
The zoo at Seversk - a city closed to outsiders without special permits - has unveiled its latest inhabitants, several brightly striped snakes.
Foreign visitors transiting on Russian airlines will be able to stay for 72 hours without documents as part of move to help boost tourism and economy.
Driver spots big cat at side of busy road, alerts police, and young male is tranquillised.
Amur leopards now number more than 100 for first time in decades, say experts.
The Amur cubs were specially trained to cope after being raised in Zhelundinsky Nature Reserve.
With as few as 70 left in the wild, evidence of poachers targeting species is likely to be a concern.
Stranded on Teletskoye Lake in the Altai Mountains, bird's only hope of survival is to be caught and put in a zoo.