Throwing their arms up in the air, these energetic squirrels play a game of ball with a walnut. Pictured in a frosty forest with their little paws dusted with snow, the pair of squirrels reach for and pass around the nut. The brilliant images were captured by radio company engineer Vadim Trunov when he spotted these sporty squirrels in a forest in the Voronezh region of Russia. The 30-year-old, of Voronezh, Russia, says: “I started taking pictures of squirrels in the woods two months ago.
If you had to scrape the snow off your car this morning or slip-slide your way into work over icy pavements spare a thought for these little critters .
HUDDLED together in the hollow of a tree, it would be easy to overlook these two sleepy owls as they blend into the trunk .
MEET the underwater British seal who is so friendly he loves to grapple divers like a friendly puppy dog .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
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 .
An American black bear mimics John Travolta’s famous Saturday Night Fever dance move by hurling its arm in the air .
Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .
SAILING over crystal clear waters, the Bajau people of Malaysia live their lives almost entirely at SEA .
This starling and prairie dog will not back down an inch as they have a fearsome stand-off over who gets to eat a nut .
With the full moon looming behind him, this polar bear nestles down for the night .
