New director Andrey Gorban, 47, on the challenges of modernising one of Siberia's favourite zoos, and dealing with his tapir's tantrums.
Winter show time as birds flock to unique ice-free Altai waters.
Her US mom still refuses to take back the daughter who 'loves her', and who she abandoned in Russia 32 months ago.
Worried about the rapid destruction of permafrost from global warming? Here's how you can counter it by restoring the woolly mammoth habitat.
Meet Syoma, the fearless, who plays cat and mouse....with a fox.
And take part in scientific experiment to PROVE that the leaking of harmful greenhouse gases in the Arctic can be slowed.
Kiara, born to a ligress and a lion, is so unusual that no-one seems sure what to call her.