OPEN mouthed and wide eyed this little squirrel appears startled. Taken aback, he sits with his hands clasped and jaw dropped. The surprised eastern grey squirrel was photographed by Lithuanian photographer Giedrius Stakauskas, 38, on a trip to Bushy Park in London. ‘Even though his little face looks like he’s in a state of complete surprise, he was actually yawning and very sleepy,’ says Giedrius, now of London.
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
Animal rescue volunteers have told how a cat riddled with cancer was forced to ripped off its own ears after it was abandoned by its owners .
If you had to scrape the snow off your car this morning or slip-slide your way into work over icy pavements spare a thought for these little critters .
Fishermen in Myanmar have perfected an unusual fishing technique by carefully balancing on one leg .
This cheeky chappie is getting into all kinds of monkey business as he enjoys cooling off on a scorching hot day .
WITH their robotic movements and pristine uniforms, these are the sexy traffic girls of North Korea that are becoming iconic figures in the secretive state .
Surveying its surroundings, a tiny harvest mouse climbs the stem of a dandelion .
A German photographer travelled around Africa where he met and photographed members of tribes in a series of intimate portraits .
NEVER mind being careful not to choke on your food, this mother bird has a bigger challenge on her hands, as her ravenous offspring impatiently launches its head down into her stomach .
What lies beneath this building site? Britain's great hope of winning the pre-WW2 arms race against Nazi Germany .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
These photographs of extreme weather capture storms furiously rolling across the sky above America .