SWIMMING slowly towards the shore, a small group of bottlenose dolphins arrive for breakfast at a beach in Western Australia. The dolphins swim into shallow waters, just three metres from the beach, and eat fish from the hands of locals. The eye-opening encounter was captured by 47-year-old lawyer and photographer Andrea Izzotti at Monkey Mia beach, a popular tourist destination on the west coast of Australia.
A kingfisher’s bright blue and orange feathers glisten in the sunlight as the bird dives into a lake .
WITH his spiked ears and yellow and blue body, a colourful monkey bears an uncanny resemblance to Marvel Comics’ Wolverine .
FORGET Thorpe Park this summer as this is a 50 mile-per-hour ride over the Colorado River CANYON .
Splashing around in the water, a mother otter and her son are tangled in a family feud .
THIS DANGER-mad female pensioner could be the oldest Brit to cage dive with CROCODILES .
POPE MOBBED BY THOUSANDS OF WORSHIPPERS IN RIO - Thousands of worshippers gather to celebrate the Papal visit on Copacabana beach, Rio de Janeiro ,Brazil .
DIPPING and diving their way through this bumpy journey, these giraffe's duck for cover as they dodge multiple cables and wires .
The claws come out at meal time as a group of white tailed eagles brawl over road-kill .
These photographs of extreme weather capture storms furiously rolling across the sky above America .
A pair of chicks bravely decided to befriend a python, despite being the snake's favourite choice of food .