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.
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
HUDDLING under a leaf, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls take shelter from the rain .
A brave praying mantis makes an unusual friend in an Oriental garden lizard .
FROM MRS Patmore to Lady Sybil, these barking mad illustrations show the WOOF-er side of some of our most loved Downton characters .
GLAMPING is taken to a whole new level in the form of the luxurious Pop-Up Hotel .
CAMPED out in the middle of a forest, these unusual hut hotels take you back to basics .
FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .
A hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws .
SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive .
