PAWS for thought as you feast your eyes on this rare bear bathing session. These coastal brown bears gather for the sockeye salmon, who are attempting to get to their natal spawning ground. The giant fur-balls can eat up to 168 lbs of the protein-rich fish in a single day, providing them with the fat reserves they need to survive the winter hibernation.
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
A German photographer travelled around Africa where he met and photographed members of tribes in a series of intimate portraits .
THE THOUGHT OF BECOMING shipwrecked on a remote destination would fill most holidaymakers with dread .
NATURE PAPARAZZIS prove you don't have to be Justin Bieber or Cheryl Cole to attract a pack of photographers .
STOOD side by side next to a busy road, these buildings were once bustling with life .
A man who conned tax officials out of £34 million and funded a lavish lifestyle of luxury hotels and restaurants has been jailed for one of the longest sentences in British criminal fraud history .
With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .
STARING eagerly into the camera, this little toad is full of curiosity .
AN OLD ENGLISH cottage packed full of history and valuables has been left to rot .
A chipmunk, with his cheeks full to bursting, has no intention of leaving with an empty stomach .
A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .