A DETERMINED great blue heron holds on tightly to its prey as the furry gopher attempts to wriggle free .

FLOATING effortlessly on his back, this little otter laps up a rare glimmer of English spring sunshine .

Throwing a right hook as he launches onto his opponent with his gnarling teeth at the ready, this is the OTTER-LY ruthless showdown between two otters .

A group of whale sharks gather to feed underneath a fisherman’s boat off the coast of Papua, Indonesia .

LIKE A scene from A Bugs Life, these ants work on creating their own mini community .

A father-of-one stunned his wife of twenty-five years after revealing his secret love of POLE DANCING .

BRAIDED, sculpted and beaded, these are the eye-catching hairstyles worn by the tribal women of Angola .

She is about to start driving and soon will be able to legally buy alcohol and get married, but Poppy Webb-Jones still looks and thinks like a ten-year-old girl .

This tranquil setting stretches for miles as the sun sets behind the mountain .

An Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .

Two dogs who couldn't keep their paws off each other have been united in matrimonial bliss after their owners shelled out $10,000 on a lavish canine wedding ceremony .

A good samaritan who came to the aid of a rape victim has told how they were turned away from the Salvation Army because "they only help men" .