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.
A hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws .
LYING flat out on his back, this little meerkat makes the most of the English sunshine .
Animal rescue volunteers have told how a cat riddled with cancer was forced to ripped off its own ears after it was abandoned by its owners .
A British photographer has captured the beauty of London in a stunning series of landscapes shots .
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .
THIS LITTLE squirrel tries to keep himself snug as snow starts to fall around him .
GLAMPING is taken to a whole new level in the form of the luxurious Pop-Up Hotel .
Full of tired and busy commuters, these underground stations are rarely admired for their architecture or beauty .
A photographer has travelled the length of the UK capturing lighthouses and their picturesque surroundings .
