CARRYING a fully grown goat on his back, this five-year-old boy is a child shepherd in the mountains of northern Ethiopia. Away from modern civilization, children living in the Simien Mountains spend their gruelling days herding, or carrying, animals and walking miles through the rocky terrain. From the age of five these children are responsible for goats and sheep in the highlands and when they do rest, the boys and girls are schooled in classrooms made from mud, rocks and wood. German photographer Mario Gerth trekked 3,000 metres up the Ethiopian mountain range to visit this group of Tigray people and their hardy children and witness their unorthodox lifestyle.
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 .
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FINALLY catching a meal, a pair of great white egrets fight over their dinner .
Clinging on to their furry backs, mischievous monkeys appeared to enjoy the free transport as they rode around on a perturbed Capybara .
A GLOWING range of greens and blues sweep across the sky in a spectacular display of light .
A cheeky chipmunk offers some of his spare food, before deciding against the idea and shoving the extra peanut into his already crammed mouth .
THIS DANGER-mad female pensioner could be the oldest Brit to cage dive with CROCODILES .
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A hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws .
