SNUGGLED up in the hay away from the elements, this adorable hoglet has sought solace with a familiar friend. But the hedgehog it is cutely curled up next to is in fact a garden ornament. Tiny Drew was found with three of his siblings on a cold Autumn night in Druids Heath in Birmingham. A quick-thinking member of the public rang experts from Willows Hedgehog Rescue, who came to the aid of the prickly customers.
An adorable little squirrel wakes from a nap and pops out his tongue for the camera .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
The gunslingers are long gone and tumbleweeds have taken over at this abandoned American Wild West Theme Park in Cornwall .
A DETERMINED great blue heron holds on tightly to its prey as the furry gopher attempts to wriggle free .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
PUCKERING up and enjoying some quality time, these are the most lovable monkeys on the planet .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
CCTV shows a dark figure dumping the dog- A pet dog suffering with cancer has been put down after being dumped at an animal rescue in what officials said is the worst abandonment of any animal they have witnessed .
ROLLING across a 65-metre-high viaduct in the Alps, the red carriages of the Bernina Express add a splash of colour to the spectacular snow-covered Swiss surroundings .
With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .
JUDGE BLASTED FOR LETTING PAEDO WALK FREE A PERVERT who sexually assaulted two young girls on an allotment, telling them he was brushing spiders off them, has walked free from court – because jailing him was ‘unfair’ on his family .