SWIMMING slowly towards the shore, a small group of bottlenose dolphins arrive for breakfast at a beach in Western Australia. The dolphins swim into shallow waters, just three metres from the beach, and eat fish from the hands of locals. The eye-opening encounter was captured by 47-year-old lawyer and photographer Andrea Izzotti at Monkey Mia beach, a popular tourist destination on the west coast of Australia.
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .
A DETERMINED great blue heron holds on tightly to its prey as the furry gopher attempts to wriggle free .
Kevin Silva, 52 from Indiana in the USA, has spent an estimated £65K ($100K) on Batman trinkets over the years, and even keeps his 2,500-item haul in his very own basement 'Bat Cave' .
An American black bear mimics John Travolta’s famous Saturday Night Fever dance move by hurling its arm in the air .
PERCHED on a branch, these two frogs hold hands as they look into the camera .
DIPPING his head into the vase of water, this little squirrel takes a refreshing break from an afternoon of eating .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
Swirling water and sand create amazing aerial images of river deltas across Iceland .
An Italian photographer travelled to Chile where he visited several star-gazing sites, home to some of the world's most advanced telescopes, located in the spectacular setting of the Atacama desert .