ROLLING around in the snow, these young brown bears take a break from their play fight to share a tender hug with one another. The cubs reveal their sweet sibling bond by wrapping their arms around each other. Italian photographer Alberto Ghizzi Panizza captured the special moment in the Bavarian Forest in Bavaria, Germany. The 39-year-old, of Parma, Italy, says: “Bears, especially young ones, are very playful and curious.
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A cricket perches on an unusual seat after crawling up the snout of a crocodile .
AT first glance these images could easily be mistaken for photographs, but they are in-fact real life drawings created using nothing but coloured pencils .
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An Indonesian farmer is dragged through muddy water as he clings to the tails of two charging cows .
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A TAXIDERMY truck spotted in America’s Deep South could be the most gruesome wagon on the road .
TOWERING 65 metres into the sky, this terrifying accent is a dream for climbers .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .