RACING down the slopes in her tiny ski gear, this TWO-YEAR-OLD girl has already mastered the art of skiing. Aurora Burns, of Girdwood, Alaska, is now more at home on a snowy mountainside than inside a sandpit. Her parents, Cody Burns, 29, and Andrea Peterson, 34, insist their daughter is destined to take off. Cody, a ski patrol night supervisor, says: “Aurora has been skiing since she was in the womb as Andrea was still keen to ski throughout her pregnancy, and we were showing her ski films as soon as she arrived.
A curious red squirrel takes a break from collecting nuts and tries her hand at photography .
A German photographer travelled around Africa where he met and photographed members of tribes in a series of intimate portraits .
Staring death in the face, a little field mouse bravely confronts a hungry cat .
BASKING in smug satisfaction, a confident squirrel gives a wink to the camera .
Splashing around in the water, a mother otter and her son are tangled in a family feud .
THEIR gnarling teeth at the ready, these two baboons fight it out for the last piece of fruit .
A lazy tree frog, tired of hopping along a branch, chooses the slowest form of transport when it jumps on top of an unsuspecting snail .
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .
BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .
A carefree bear cub reclines in the water with his feet raised in the air .
A luxury caravan with a price tag of ONE MILLION DOLLARS is due to hit the road later this year .
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 .