PATTERNS of colourful swirls and twirls of smoke help to create these imaginative spellbinding photographs. The hypnotic and psychedelic images were created by American psychologist Mark Scalco, 49, who refers to his work as 'smokreations'. 'I've always enjoyed the patterns made by kaleidoscopes or some geometric screen-savers,' says Mark, of Durham, North Carolina. 'I remember as a kid looking for shapes in clouds and smoke.
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
With the full moon looming behind him, this polar bear nestles down for the night .
THIS ONE of a kind experience brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'a coffee to go' .
PUSHING the diver out of his way, this little sea turtle shows he’s not in the mood for photographs .
PUCKERING up and enjoying some quality time, these are the most lovable monkeys on the planet .
A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .
ROLLING around in the snow, these young brown bears take a break from their play fight to share a tender hug with one another .
THIS is the shocking moment a clumsy radio newsreader plunged into a freezing canal while texting her boyfriend instead of looking where she was going .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
Throwing their arms up in the air, these energetic squirrels play a game of ball with a walnut .
FROM KISSING an alligator on the nose to walking over broken glass, this fearless daredevil is a real life female JACKASS .
SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .