Heart pounding, Rebecca Cain jumped as a car door slammed on the street outside. Alone at home, the 24-year-old hid behind drawn curtains and refused to answer the phone. It had been days since she'd ventured out to see her mates and even the sight of a new text had her on edge. For months, Rebecca was a nervous wreck - all because of her ex-boyfriend.
STARING eagerly into the camera, this little toad is full of curiosity .
THESE LOVE BIRDS can’t keep their beaks off each other as they share a very public display of affection .
What lies beneath this building site? Britain's great hope of winning the pre-WW2 arms race against Nazi Germany .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .
FLEXING his muscles and staring straight at his opponent, this bodybuilding squirrel is the nuts .
FROM a HOLLYWOOD actress to the face of an innocent child, these are incredible drawings with an unlikely twist .
Say cheese! This cheeky chappy isn’t in the mood to live up to his scary reputation as he is pictured here cracking a killer smile as he goes about his daily business .
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .