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.
PRANKSTER Dom Joly was so livid when he was slapped with a parking ticket that he took to Twitter to vent his anger – only to discover he was the victim of his own gag! The comic got a taste of his own medicine when he was tricked by a fellow joker for the first time in a decade .
A DETERMINED great blue heron holds on tightly to its prey as the furry gopher attempts to wriggle free .
A trio of ants are locked in a tug of war over a fly as they pull the bug by its legs .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
A SPECTRUM of colours fills the sky during this spectacular and natural display of light .
BALANCING on top of a tree, this bear cub puts her climbing skills to the test .
A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .
An intrepid explorer hopes to be reunited with his travel partner, after his cuddly toy companion was stolen .
BRAIDED, sculpted and beaded, these are the eye-catching hairstyles worn by the tribal women of Angola .
