SHOWING off her best assets for the camera, this cheeky orangutan is in the mood for love, puckering up her lips to blow the biggest kiss she can. Feeling flirty on this particular morning, this female orang-utan named Nonja, 37, decided to send out a bit of love to zoo visitors, showing off her best pout. These hilarious photographs were taken by animal photographer Josef Gelernter, 32, after a visit to Vienna Zoo, Austria.
BASKING in smug satisfaction, a confident squirrel gives a wink to the camera .
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 .
The claws come out at meal time as a group of white tailed eagles brawl over road-kill .
A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .
A small Indian monkey is seemingly gob-smacked after reading the latest stock market news .
Some will get up close and personal with Mother Nature’s deadliest animals to get the perfect shot, posing the question, what lengths will a photographer go to for that all important picture? But in this case, the question should be what depths .
A DETERMINED great blue heron holds on tightly to its prey as the furry gopher attempts to wriggle free .
A baby sperm whale assumed the role of a friendly giant when faced with two awestruck divers .
SITTING on a burning sofa unable to move, one man turns his terrifying dreams into reality .
The gunslingers are long gone and tumbleweeds have taken over at this abandoned American Wild West Theme Park in Cornwall .
From a floating jelly fish to a relaxed seal, Britain’s unappreciated beach life is captured above and below the water .
A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .