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.
An adorable orangutan named Pongo celebrates his first birthday at Zoo Atlanta, Georgia, America .
THE THOUGHT OF BECOMING shipwrecked on a remote destination would fill most holidaymakers with dread .
A blanket of fog is lit up by the colourful glowing lights of the city below .
Here's a APPY solution that should brighten up a wet weekend away camping - a wood powered stove that also recharges your smartphone .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .
THIS is the EXPLOSIVE moment when a 50 metre high pylon came crashing down to earth in a rural field .
HOPPING onto the scales, these adorable baby Humboldt penguins are ready for their first weigh-in .
SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .
HOTSPOT MEDIA - MILEY MASH-UP: MILEY CYRUS’ naked wrecking ball vid has been lampooned in this side-spitting photo-mashup .
