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.
SAT with his arms folded and a cross look on his face, this Gorilla looks like he's had enough of the Christmas holidays already .
LYING flat out on his back, this little meerkat makes the most of the English sunshine .
Jostling their quills into the noses of some unlucky cubs, this is the moment two feisty porcupines ALMOST defeat a pride of seven lions .
NEW DELHI, A woman activist of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party crosses a police barricade near the residence of ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi during a protest against the recent rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, April 21, 2013 .
THIS LITTLE squirrel tries to keep himself snug as snow starts to fall around him .
SQUABBLING over the last piece of grain, these hungry squirrels are determined to stock up on as much food as possible .
SAT ON top of a Brazilian turtle’s head, this little ladybird looks content as he studies his environment from a new height .
A terrified moose, trapped in a frozen lake, bobs her head above the icey water and awaits her rescue .
HUDDLING under a leaf, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls take shelter from the rain .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
Meet the human CCTV: a PCSO with a memory for faces so sharp he has apprehended more than 130 suspects in the last year alone with his eagle eyed talents .
A panic stricken kitten that got her head stuck in a car tyre has been freed by quick thinking RSPCA staff .