SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive. Equipped with a bird, gas lamp and net, he fishes without the aid of a rod by using an unusual method - first practiced in 960 AD. The fisherman, pictured in southern China, releases a cormorant bird which dives into the water and retrieves a carp, before returning to the fisherman’s reed raft. The stunning images of cormorant fishing were captured on the River Li in Guilin, China by Russian photographer Viktoriia Rogotneva when he visited the fishermen of Guilin.
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BLOWING bubbles underwater, this adorable polar bear slides into his tank for a playful dip .
SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .
WIDE EYED and staring straight down the lens of the camera, this intrigued seal is ready for his close up .
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WITH SNOW COVERING the ground around them, these two polar bears play fight .
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A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .
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More weather chaos is heading our way, with ice and snow already hitting areas across Birmingham .
MOUTH OPEN wide, this little stoat appears to be in mid-song as he belts out a tune for his onlookers .
THIS ONE of a kind experience brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'a coffee to go' .