A little caterpillar fearlessly scampers down a branch and confronts a praying mantis. As the green praying mantis lifts its body and prepares for battles, the amber bug simply stares into the face of the much larger rival. Photographer Monica Anantyowati captured the tense staredown in a garden close to her home in Malang, Indonesia.
A young orangutan comes over all shy as she hides her face behind a broken bucket .
FULL OF STUNNING colours and swirling shapes, the furrows on these fields create a mix of mesmerising patterns .
SOARING through the air, this is the moment a hungry tawny owl arrives home with dinner .
BALANCING on top of a tree, this bear cub puts her climbing skills to the test .
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 PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
A lazy tree frog, tired of hopping along a branch, chooses the slowest form of transport when it jumps on top of an unsuspecting snail .
A little caterpillar fearlessly scampers down a branch and confronts a praying mantis .
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 .
FINALLY catching a meal, a pair of great white egrets fight over their dinner .
A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .
