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.
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
A BROWN bear wades through waters in Alaska and waits for his lunch .
A cheeky chipmunk offers some of his spare food, before deciding against the idea and shoving the extra peanut into his already crammed mouth .
HOPPING onto the scales, these adorable baby Humboldt penguins are ready for their first weigh-in .
The gunslingers are long gone and tumbleweeds have taken over at this abandoned American Wild West Theme Park in Cornwall .
A HEIGHT-addicted airline pilot has taken pictures of the Dubai from 1,300-feet .
COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them .
A DETERMINED great blue heron holds on tightly to its prey as the furry gopher attempts to wriggle free .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
