An Indonesian farmer is dragged through muddy water as he clings to the tails of two charging cows. Standing on a flimsy wooden frame, the daredevil rider is a participant in an annual cattle race in the Tanah Datar regency of West Sumatra, Indonesia. Mud-caked competitors are dragged through paddy fields as part of Pacu Jawi, a festival where locals celebrate the end of the rice harvesting season. Indonesian photographer Teddy Winanda, 37, who has attended the event since 2012, witnessed this year’s race.
A group of otters put on a show of aqua aerobics, as they raise their flippers perfectly in sync .
Families in an Indian slum put their lives on the line by living on top of an ACTIVE railway track .
FLOATING effortlessly on his back, this little otter laps up a rare glimmer of English spring sunshine .
STRIKING photos capture nature at its most raw and powerful during Earth’s most electrifying event .
A kingfisher’s bright blue and orange feathers glisten in the sunlight as the bird dives into a lake .
A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .
A cheeky owl fancies a game of hide and seek as it peeps out from behind a tree .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
BURSTING colours of reds, pinks and purples give the illusion of a collection of stunning flowers .