A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico. The magnificent mammals swim up to several boats full of tourists and get so close that the passengers can stroke the mother and baby whale. The special moment was photographed by lawyer Andrea Izzotti, 47, of Genovia, Italy. Andrea says: “The mother was milking her calf in shallow waters, but they are very curious animals and they came up to our boats to see the humans.
BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .
A cheeky owl fancies a game of hide and seek as it peeps out from behind a tree .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
PICKING up a tiny tea-pot with its paws, a little red squirrel struggles to prepare its morning tea .
THIS unique holiday accommodation allows you to enjoy a full Flintstones experience .
This starling and prairie dog will not back down an inch as they have a fearsome stand-off over who gets to eat a nut .
SQUEEZING their furry faces through a hole in a tree, a trio of curious baby squirrels leave their nest for the first time to explore their surroundings .
STRIKING photos capture nature at its most raw and powerful during Earth’s most electrifying event .
VENTURING into the ocean with self-made spears and nets, the fishermen of Zanzibar put their lives on the line when they catch food for their families .
With no luck at the front of the bus, the deer runs around the center seats trying to escape through the window – THIS is the astonishing moment a DEER crashed through the front windshield of a bus before it went hysterically running around the vehicle .
A blanket of fog is lit up by the colourful glowing lights of the city below .
At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .