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.
Jostling their quills into the noses of some unlucky cubs, this is the moment two feisty porcupines ALMOST defeat a pride of seven lions .
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
Armed with a snorkel, flippers and her skimpy bikini, an intrepid female free diver swims alongside an array of reef sharks .
CAUSING a splash, this determined kingfisher goes hunting for dinner .
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
STEPFORD wives from the 1950's and 60's are performing history's most sexist exercise programme .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
WITH A LITTLE cap of fresh snow resting on his head, this squirrel tries his best to pull off his new look .
More weather chaos is heading our way, with ice and snow already hitting areas across Birmingham .
An Australian explorer has travelled the globe with a toy pig, known as Travel Piggy, in search of a missing cuddly companion .
Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .