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 NINJA red squirrel cuts a dashing figure as the little fella jumps up to ten-feet between treetops in the Yorkshire Dales .
GIANT garden sculptures don't beat about the bush .
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 .
SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .
THIS is the incredible moment a pelican throws a fish into the air and SLAM DUNKS it into its enormous throat sack .
AT first glance these images could easily be mistaken for photographs, but they are in-fact real life drawings created using nothing but coloured pencils .
FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
BASKING in smug satisfaction, a confident squirrel gives a wink to the camera .
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 .
A carefree bear cub reclines in the water with his feet raised in the air .
PERCHED on a branch, these two frogs hold hands as they look into the camera .