A brave leopard kicks back and relaxes in the sunshine - just inches from an enormous crocodile. The laid-back female leopard, named Romi, appears to be unfazed by the dangerous reptile, despite its rows of razor-sharp teeth. The pair were spotted by photographer Elmar Weiss and tour guide Alfred Korir on the bank of the Mara River in the Musiara Marsh, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Elmar, 46, of Hamburg, Germany, says: “We watched nervously as Romi climbed down a grassy slope towards the edge of the river."
A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
Here's a collection of art for the DIGIT-AL age as these fascinating illusions of landmarks, places and even a banana are made using just a pair of hands .
A Brit photographer has captured one of the world's most camera-shy species of fish - during a game of underwater peek-a-boo .
THESE kingfishers prove no rod is needed as they go fishing for their dinner .
Balanced on one leg, a frog assumes the crane kick martial arts stance made famous in the movie The Karate Kid .
Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .
A little clownfish opens its mouth to reveal a blood sucking intruder living on its tongue .
STARING open-mouthed into the camera, this shocked fish looks out of place in the middle of its angry friends .
DIPPING and diving their way through this bumpy journey, these giraffe's duck for cover as they dodge multiple cables and wires .
WITH SNOW COVERING the ground around them, these two polar bears play fight .
With an abandoned tricycle sitting in an empty corridor, this derelict but once grand mansion could be the setting for The Shining .
MEET the underwater British seal who is so friendly he loves to grapple divers like a friendly puppy dog .