The boy only saw the head at first, and tried to flush it, said his father, but ‘it kept coming up.’

A colder and unusually intense winter is making life difficult for lots of wild animals in the West.

Zoo officials say Rubih probably started banging on the windows with rocks to get zookeeper’s attention for a reward.

Edgar Maddison Welch, of Salisbury, North Carolina, told police that he had come to ‘self-investigate’ an anti-Hillary Clinton conspiracy theory spread by fake news websites.

The fish were frozen against a blue floor, so it looked like they were swimming. Some formed the word ‘HELLO’ or made arrow-shaped signs in the ice.