LIKE A living balloon this baitball of sardines is ready to burst when threatened by a pointy nosed sailfish. The photographs, taken off the coast of Isla Mujeres, near Cancun, Mexico, show how these water creatures work cooperatively to cut off a portion of a school of sardines swimming close to the seafloor, and drive them to the surface. American photographer Doug Perrine, 60, managed to capture the moment the sailfish manage to herd the bait into a tightly packed ball, ready to pick off for dinner one-by-one. ‘The sailfish took-turns swimming through the bait ball slashing with their bills to kill the fish, which are quickly gobbled up,’ Doug said. ‘Sometimes they light up or change to a bright colour pattern.
An Indonesian farmer is dragged through muddy water as he clings to the tails of two charging cows .
A soap bubble lands on the frosty ground and creates a shimmering snow globe as crystals form around it .
Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .
In the calm waters of Greenland, gigantic icebergs dwarf everything around them .
HOPPING onto the scales, these adorable baby Humboldt penguins are ready for their first weigh-in .
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
LINED up one by one on a deer’s back, these little birds give their wings a break as they catch a ride across London .
DIVING down at a speed of 75mph, this is the moment a hungry osprey caught his prey .
Throwing their arms up in the air, these energetic squirrels play a game of ball with a walnut .
Surveying its surroundings, a tiny harvest mouse climbs the stem of a dandelion .
MEET the underwater British seal who is so friendly he loves to grapple divers like a friendly puppy dog .
A lazy tree frog, tired of hopping along a branch, chooses the slowest form of transport when it jumps on top of an unsuspecting snail .