SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive. Equipped with a bird, gas lamp and net, he fishes without the aid of a rod by using an unusual method - first practiced in 960 AD. The fisherman, pictured in southern China, releases a cormorant bird which dives into the water and retrieves a carp, before returning to the fisherman’s reed raft. The stunning images of cormorant fishing were captured on the River Li in Guilin, China by Russian photographer Viktoriia Rogotneva when he visited the fishermen of Guilin.
THE THOUGHT OF BECOMING shipwrecked on a remote destination would fill most holidaymakers with dread .
A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico .
THIS is the incredible moment a pelican throws a fish into the air and SLAM DUNKS it into its enormous throat sack .
A chipmunk, with his cheeks full to bursting, has no intention of leaving with an empty stomach .
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
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THIS incredible shimmer of silver fish mirrors the image of that of an underwater tornado .
WITHOUT A care in the world, this little snow monkey puts his feet up and settles in for a snooze .
IN a galaxy far, far away, this collection of stunning interstellar formations will leave you STARSTRUCK .
