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.
DASHING through the snow, this little stoat is on the lookout for a Christmas feast .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
A pair of snarling foxes go paw-to-paw and brawl after unexpectedly crossing paths .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .
A hypnotherapist filmed himself sexually abusing a 19-year-old patient while she was in a trance-like state .
The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .
SITTING quietly at the edge of the lake, these two baby bears watch and learn as the adults hunt for fish .
AN ANGRY giraffe gave a bush-riding cyclist a scare when he stomped his £2K bike into the dirt .
WITH a paw in the air and his tongue hanging from his mouth, it is clear to see that this little groundhog is struggling to wake up and leave behind the comfort of his burrow .
Beautiful turquoise waves rise and fall in a series of stunning images taken along the coastline of south-eastern Australia .
