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.
Jostling their quills into the noses of some unlucky cubs, this is the moment two feisty porcupines ALMOST defeat a pride of seven lions .
With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .
HOTSPOT MEDIA - MILEY MASH-UP: MILEY CYRUS’ naked wrecking ball vid has been lampooned in this side-spitting photo-mashup .
At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .
BOXING DAY has come early for this pair of feisty squirrels, as their Christmas party quickly turns sour .
A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .
SOME OF the sea’s most terrifying creatures show their softer side as they join a group of diners for lunch .
THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS - 250 DRIVERS ARRESTED FOR STREET RACING IN BIRMINGHAM- In Pic - The start line on the Heartlands Parkway Nechels Birmingham .
A TAXIDERMY truck spotted in America’s Deep South could be the most gruesome wagon on the road .
A frilled lizard appears to be belting out a tune as it sits in a tree with its mouth open wide .
The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .