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 alien-like bug would look more at home in outer-space but it can actually be found wriggling around here on Earth .
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish .
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WIDE EYED and staring straight down the lens of the camera, this intrigued seal is ready for his close up .
HUDDLING under a leaf, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls take shelter from the rain .