GETTING behind the camera, this monkey practices his photography skills on his friends. Clearly bored of always being the subject for photographs, he steps up to the plate and tries out life on the other side of the lens. These funny photographs were captured by Israeli photographer Jacki Soikis, 49, after he caught this little squirrel monkey trying his hand at photography at a monkey park in north Israel. 'I really wanted to see if the monkeys could pick up on how to use a camera,' said Jacki.'So for several hours I showed the monkeys how I use the camera, and tried to just generally make them really curious about it.
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
A trio of ants are locked in a tug of war over a fly as they pull the bug by its legs .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
SNUGGLED up in the hay away from the elements, this adorable hoglet has sought solace with a familiar friend .
WITH a paw in the air and his tongue hanging from his mouth, it is clear to see that this little groundhog is struggling to wake up and leave behind the comfort of his burrow .
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SOARING through the air, this is the moment a hungry tawny owl arrives home with dinner .
DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .