BLOWING bubbles underwater, this adorable polar bear slides into his tank for a playful dip. Submerged below the surface, he tries his hand at blowing bubbles for his audience, before gobbling up breakfast. James Hayward, a 15 year old student from Kendal, Cumbria, captured these photographs inside the 'Frozen Tundra' section of Singapore Zoo. Looking through a large viewing area below water, James managed to take several pictures of Inuka, the male polar bear, while he played under the water after he dived for food.
PERCHING on top of a gate, this young barn swallow waits patiently for his mum to return with dinner .
These adorable pictures show the moment two cuddly red panda cubs take their first look at the outside world and are weighed for the very first time .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
GETTING behind the camera, this monkey practices his photography skills on his friends .
STARING intently into the camera, a polar bear appears to be lost in thought while relaxing in the snow .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
POWERFUL bolts of lightning illuminate the night sky in an incredible autumn storm over the Sardinian coastline .
THIS is the shocking moment a clumsy radio newsreader plunged into a freezing canal while texting her boyfriend instead of looking where she was going .
