A trio of ants are locked in a tug of war over a fly as they pull the bug by its legs. The feisty ants, all desperately trying to keep hold of their dinner, are eventually joined by a small colony of weaver ants as they all bid to take the prize home. The struggle over the horse fly was photographed in Tiruvalla, Kerala, India in the back garden of Sreekumar Mahadevan Pillai. The 39-year-old Indian neurosurgeon says: “There is a huge teak tree leaning over my terrace which hosts millions of weaver ants.
THIS LITTLE squirrel tries to keep himself snug as snow starts to fall around him .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
LYING flat out on his back, this little meerkat makes the most of the English sunshine .
HOTSPOT MEDIA - BACK TO THE FUTURE WITH AR' KID: A POSTAL SORTER has perfected the art of time travel by delivering images that are from the past .
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 .
HOPPING onto the scales, these adorable baby Humboldt penguins are ready for their first weigh-in .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
BASKING in smug satisfaction, a confident squirrel gives a wink to the camera .
A carefree bear cub reclines in the water with his feet raised in the air .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .