A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish. But the hungry pup’s mission to steal the catch is cut short when he is waved away by the larger otter. The giant river otters, a breed of otter native to South America and the largest in the world, were photographed by Morten Ross during a trip to the Peruvian Amazon. The 49-year-old IT service manager observed the animals at the Amazon Research and Conservation Centre in Soledad, Peru
NOT YOUR everyday selfie, this plucky diver poses with some of the scariest predators in the ocean .
A BAMBI was dramatically caught in mid-air by a greedy Nile crocodile in a once-in-a-million flying pincer move .
FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .
Most people bend over backwards to keep children entertained, but this baboon show us how it’s done .
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
BRAIDED, sculpted and beaded, these are the eye-catching hairstyles worn by the tribal women of Angola .
PRANKSTER Dom Joly was so livid when he was slapped with a parking ticket that he took to Twitter to vent his anger – only to discover he was the victim of his own gag! The comic got a taste of his own medicine when he was tricked by a fellow joker for the first time in a decade .
CLIMBING, falling and tugging on his weary mum, this little orangutan is up to all kinds of trouble .
A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .
A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
POPE MOBBED BY THOUSANDS OF WORSHIPPERS IN RIO - Thousands of worshippers gather to celebrate the Papal visit on Copacabana beach, Rio de Janeiro ,Brazil .
A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish .