Jostling their quills into the noses of some unlucky cubs, this is the moment two feisty porcupines ALMOST defeat a pride of seven lions. The porcupines, after leaving their spikey mark, hurry away from the pack of big cats. But they are unable to escape when the pride's alpha male lion arrives and devours the retreating spine covered rodents. Amateur photographer and software tester Philip Eglise witness the battle during a trip to the Kalahari Desert, South Africa .
Staring death in the face, a little field mouse bravely confronts a hungry cat .
FLAUNTING its new accessory, a fashionable green dumpy tree frog poses for the camera while wearing a SNAIL as a hat .
WIDE EYED and staring straight down the lens of the camera, this intrigued seal is ready for his close up .
A British jewellery designer with a passion for London's iconic Gherkin has created a pen with an INK-REDIBLE price tag of £27,500 .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
THEIR gnarling teeth at the ready, these two baboons fight it out for the last piece of fruit .
From vivid greens to glowing pinks, the colours of the aurora borealis fill the night sky above a snow covered Lapland .
A pair of chicks bravely decided to befriend a python, despite being the snake's favourite choice of food .
The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .
A hypnotherapist filmed himself sexually abusing a 19-year-old patient while she was in a trance-like state .
Fetching a tiny carrot and a head-shaped snowball, a red squirrel builds the perfect snowman .