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.
THIS DANGER-mad female pensioner could be the oldest Brit to cage dive with CROCODILES .
While often referred to as the kings of the jungle, gorillas - for all their might - are notorious hydrophobes .
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PUSHING the diver out of his way, this little sea turtle shows he’s not in the mood for photographs .