A cheeky gorilla sticks her tongue out and plays up for the camera at Bronx Zoo. After a morning spent wandering around her enclosure, the restless ape finally sits down to relax, but not before showing off numerous facial expressions. Israeli zoologist and wildlife photographer Michal Samuni-Blank photographed the playful western lowland gorilla when she visited Bronx Zoo in New York. Michal of New York, says: “The gorilla’s name is Julia and she has a very special personality. She is very outgoing and is one of a few gorillas in the zoo that interacts with the visitors.
SOME OF the sea’s most terrifying creatures show their softer side as they join a group of diners for lunch .
These photographs of extreme weather capture storms furiously rolling across the sky above America .
CARRYING a fully grown goat on his back, this five-year-old boy is a child shepherd in the mountains of northern Ethiopia .
Armed with a snorkel, flippers and her skimpy bikini, an intrepid female free diver swims alongside an array of reef sharks .
COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them .
PRANKSTER Dom Joly was so livid when he was slapped with a parking ticket that he took to Twitter to vent his anger – only to discover he was the victim of his own gag! The comic got a taste of his own medicine when he was tricked by a fellow joker for the first time in a decade .
A lively lemon shark grins into the camera and showcases his impressive teeth .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
A brave leopard kicks back and relaxes in the sunshine - just inches from an enormous crocodile .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .