Leaping out of the ocean, a group of gentoo penguins fly through the air before landing safely on an iceberg. Shaking their tail feathers dry, the seabirds take a few moments to waddle back towards the water's edge before taking the plunge again. The amusing scene was captured by photography guide David Merron as he watched the penguins from a boat near Danco Island, Antarctica.
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
A doting seal smiles at her sweet little pup as she tickles its tummy on the beach .
Pic By HotSpot Media - PARROT RIDES ON THE TUBE - THIS pretty boy could be forgiven for forgetting his Oyst-aaarrrgh-card .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
PERCHED on a branch, these two frogs hold hands as they look into the camera .
THIS incredible shimmer of silver fish mirrors the image of that of an underwater tornado .
ROLLING around in the snow, these young brown bears take a break from their play fight to share a tender hug with one another .
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
The claws come out at meal time as a group of white tailed eagles brawl over road-kill .
WITH the phosphorescent blobs and mesmerising patterns, these spectacular images may look like the hall marks of an enchanted forest but it is in fact the scene of thousands of dancing FIREFLIES .