“If you meet a boar, don’t approach it and don’t look it in the eye … if you meet a whole herd, stay away from the piglets.”

- Advice in a note from the Moscow mayor's official website on the appearance of wild boars in some Moscow parks

This week: stamps honor highways, grave-diggers let loose, and Russia's cutest cop takes his leave.

The reboot of a classic Russian cartoon features some modern updates.

“It’s not clear how he found himself at school: maybe someone threw him out or he crawled away. As our specialist said, the python is full. Such an animal is able to swallow even a cat. And it’s a great happiness that no one was hurt.”

– Alena Shibanova, a representative from the Good Home Animal Shelter, on a two-meter python found near a school in Kineshma

This week arts and crafts flourish under quarantine; a heatwave hits an unlikely place, and coronavirus fashion hits a new high (or low?).

The Moscow Zoo laments the loss of an 84-year-old, WW2-veteran alligator.

Saturn, a Mississippi alligator, saw Hitler and survived the Battle of Berlin. A tribute to the Moscow Zoo's greatest reptile.

This wonderful short animated film about a crocodile is our video of the week.

Probably they do, but now they’re also attacking in a city.

It mows and fertilizes. What could possibly go wrong?

The Belarusian President followed his own coronavirus advice, Pomeranian in tow.

This week inventiveness takes on coronavirus, men need red meat, and Victory Day is the pandemic's latest casualty.