WITHOUT a care in the world, this little chimpanzee shows off her gymnastic skills as she swings around her enclosure. The blissful ape throws herself around using trees, branches and ropes in Southwick's Zoo in Mendon, Massachusetts. The playful scene was captured by photographer Abeselom Zerit when he visited the zoo in north-western America. The 43-year-old, of Pawtucket , Rhode Island, says: "This adolescent chimp, named Tanzie, turned six in March and she reminds me a lot of my own five-year-old - very curious and rascally!
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With an abandoned tricycle sitting in an empty corridor, this derelict but once grand mansion could be the setting for The Shining .
STARING intently into the camera, a polar bear appears to be lost in thought while relaxing in the snow .
BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
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THIS alien-like bug would look more at home in outer-space but it can actually be found wriggling around here on Earth .
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
