TRYING their best to wriggle away, three adorable tiger cubs receive their health checks at Chester Zoo. The Sumatran tiger cubs are given a full examination by zoo staff to ensure they’re in purr-fect shape. The trio, born to mother Kirana and father Fabi on 2nd January, huddle together after their checks, which included being examined, sexed, weighed and vaccinated.
Here's a collection of art for the DIGIT-AL age as these fascinating illusions of landmarks, places and even a banana are made using just a pair of hands .
A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .
ALL IS not as it seems in these deceptive cityscapes .
LEAF-ing much to the imagination, this camera trickery is blooming marvellous .
A photographer has captured stunning photographs of the Milky Way above picturesque landscapes in the UK and Italy .
CARRYING a fully grown goat on his back, this five-year-old boy is a child shepherd in the mountains of northern Ethiopia .
With one hand rested on his belly and the other propping his head up, this lazy lizard takes an afternoon break .
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 .
A German photographer travelled around Africa where he met and photographed members of tribes in a series of intimate portraits .
An Italian photographer travelled to Chile where he visited several star-gazing sites, home to some of the world's most advanced telescopes, located in the spectacular setting of the Atacama desert .
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 .
BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .