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.
This starling and prairie dog will not back down an inch as they have a fearsome stand-off over who gets to eat a nut .
With a dust covered coat hung from a wardrobe door and a pair of glasses left on a shelf, a remote farmhouse lies abandoned in the Welsh countryside .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
A once bustling gold rush town in Mono County, California now stands completed deserted .
WEARING tiny Christmas accessories, these adorable babies get into the spirit of the season .
Staring death in the face, a little field mouse bravely confronts a hungry cat .
MAKING himself at home, this little snail perches happily on top of this frog's head .
A grand 56-bedroom hotel, once heaving with injured soldiers during the First World War, now lies completely abandoned .
These are the men with one of the most unpleasant jobs in the world .
A NINJA red squirrel cuts a dashing figure as the little fella jumps up to ten-feet between treetops in the Yorkshire Dales .
BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .