WITH A wide smile plastered across his face, this little gecko is ready for his close up. The smiley tokay gecko was photographed by photographer Angi Wallace in her home in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The 47-year-old says: “I placed this gecko on a branch deliberately to take some photographs. “He has the cutest face, however if I wave my hand near him he opens his mouth as a form of defensive behaviour.
An Australian explorer has travelled the globe with a toy pig, known as Travel Piggy, in search of a missing cuddly companion .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
STARING intently into the camera, a polar bear appears to be lost in thought while relaxing in the snow .
A cheeky chipmunk offers some of his spare food, before deciding against the idea and shoving the extra peanut into his already crammed mouth .
With the vivid red smoke billowing into the sky amid the misty sand dunes, these are the blissful views provided at the break of dawn at a volcano .
A SPECTACULAR array of stars fills the night sky as they soar over this active volcano .
In the calm waters of Greenland, gigantic icebergs dwarf everything around them .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
SPURTING water 20ft into the air, this is one well you wouldn't want to dip your bucket into .
A brave praying mantis makes an unusual friend in an Oriental garden lizard .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
Clinging on to their furry backs, mischievous monkeys appeared to enjoy the free transport as they rode around on a perturbed Capybara .