DASHING through the snow, this little stoat is on the lookout for a Christmas feast. Bobbing its head as it moves through the frosty grass, the adorable creature darts and leaps across the field as it searches for the perfect meal. The delightful animal was photographed by Swiss student Etienne Francey as he watched the stoat play in fields in his hometown of Cousset in Switzerland. The 17-year-old says: ‘Cycling along a country road near my house one snowy day, I was startled to see a stoat run across the road in front of me.
A man who conned tax officials out of £34 million and funded a lavish lifestyle of luxury hotels and restaurants has been jailed for one of the longest sentences in British criminal fraud history .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
A group of otters put on a show of aqua aerobics, as they raise their flippers perfectly in sync .
Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .
MOUTH OPEN wide, this little stoat appears to be in mid-song as he belts out a tune for his onlookers .
15-foot-long great white sharks on the hunt, in False Bay, South Africa - SHOCK and awe pictures of 15-foot-long great whites on the hunt will leave you stunned .
SURROUNDED by a snowstorm, these young polar bears battle the elements - as well as each other .
COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them .
A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .
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A Romanian photographer has captured the unique patterns of hundreds of human eyes in a series of striking macro shots .
A BROWN bear wades through waters in Alaska and waits for his lunch .