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.
Splashing around in the water, a mother otter and her son are tangled in a family feud .
LEAF-ing much to the imagination, this camera trickery is blooming marvellous .
A BAMBI was dramatically caught in mid-air by a greedy Nile crocodile in a once-in-a-million flying pincer move .
WRAPPED up in classy headscarves, these adorable pooches are the picture of sophistication .
Some will get up close and personal with Mother Nature’s deadliest animals to get the perfect shot, posing the question, what lengths will a photographer go to for that all important picture? But in this case, the question should be what depths .
TUGGING on the wing of his sibling, this needy owl is after some attention .
A hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws .
Armed with a snorkel, flippers and her skimpy bikini, an intrepid female free diver swims alongside an array of reef sharks .
A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
