BRIGHT eyed and bushy tailed, a rare monkey catches a ride on the back of its mum in Chester Zoo. At only 12 weeks old, buffy-headed capuchin monkey is one of the world’s rarest species of primates. Dr Nick Davis, assistant curator of mammals at Chester Zoo, said: “In the past they were abundant in the Atlantic rainforests of eastern Brazil, but sadly they’re now on the verge of disappearing from the wild because of severe destruction to their habitat and intense hunting.
THIS DANGER-mad female pensioner could be the oldest Brit to cage dive with CROCODILES .
BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .
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 .
A disabled sheep is enjoying a new fleece of life after receiving a specially-designed wheelchair .
CAMPED out in the middle of a forest, these unusual hut hotels take you back to basics .
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 pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
A mischievous fox cub demonstrates his playful side by biting his sibling’s tail .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
Gigantic 100ft waves create the perfect playground for dare-devil surfers from across the world .
What lies beneath this building site? Britain's great hope of winning the pre-WW2 arms race against Nazi Germany .