WITH SNOW COVERING the ground around them, these two polar bears play fight. Playing in minus six degrees temperatures, the juvenile males stand on their hind legs as they trade blows in their light-hearted battle. These adorable photographs were captured by American photographer Barbara Motter, 55, after she spotted the two bears play fighting in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. ‘This is where the polar bears congregate, waiting for the Hudson Bay to freeze and their winter hunting season to begin,’ says the 55 year old, of Maryland.
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
FLYING through the air, these delighted pooches pull their best poses mid-flight .
A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .
It’s a role reversal in the Visayan Sea as HUNDREDS of tiny, glistening eggs are carried around inside the mouth of their cardinalfish father .
DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .
WELCOME to what could be the world's tallest TOTALLY wooden construction .
THE THOUGHT OF BECOMING shipwrecked on a remote destination would fill most holidaymakers with dread .
It's incredible to think anyone could live in such horrendous squalor - yet two men have been prosecuted for keeping their homes in such revolting conditions that it was no longer fit for their animals .
Families in an Indian slum put their lives on the line by living on top of an ACTIVE railway track .
The aurora lights captured in Blair Nebraska, America - WITH electrifying purple and illuminous green brightening up the night sky, this is the rare moment a flash of 'sprite' lightening was captured on camera .
This hungry white tiger has just one thing on her mind - to taste fresh meat .
AN ADORABLE one-eyed kitten has been dubbed the 'pirate cat' because of his pirate-like facial expressions .