SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws. This mid-air takeaway was captured by Malaysian photographer Phoo Chan on a trip to Gomes Park in Fremont, California, USA. ‘At first glance this looks like a fight over food, but it is actually an adult white-tailed kite offering her freshly caught vole to her chick,’ says 50-year-old Phoo, of California. Being able to catch the vole in mid-air is part of the chick’s formative training, before the bird is old enough to hunt on his own.
A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico .
A disabled sheep is enjoying a new fleece of life after receiving a specially-designed wheelchair .
An intrepid explorer hopes to be reunited with his travel partner, after his cuddly toy companion was stolen .
WONDERS of the world have been transformed into their mini-versions in a seven-year round the world adventure .
FULL OF STUNNING colours and swirling shapes, the furrows on these fields create a mix of mesmerising patterns .
SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .
Struggling home entertainment chain Blockbuster has been slammed for advertising its workers' jobs while they are still in them in order to scare them into working harder .
A brave praying mantis makes an unusual friend in an Oriental garden lizard .
POWERFUL bolts of lightning illuminate the night sky in an incredible autumn storm over the Sardinian coastline .
A terrified moose, trapped in a frozen lake, bobs her head above the icey water and awaits her rescue .
It’s a role reversal in the Visayan Sea as HUNDREDS of tiny, glistening eggs are carried around inside the mouth of their cardinalfish father .
BRAIDED, sculpted and beaded, these are the eye-catching hairstyles worn by the tribal women of Angola .