A terrified moose, trapped in a frozen lake, bobs her head above the icey water and awaits her rescue. Weighing nearly 36 stone, the female moose was lucky to survive after she slipped through the ice that formed over Muncho Lake in northern British Columbia, Canada. The moose was rescued by travellers, truck drivers and locals after they spotted the animal's head bobbing above the ice.
A once bustling gold rush town in Mono County, California now stands completed deserted .
Staring death in the face, a little field mouse bravely confronts a hungry cat .
WIDE EYED and staring straight down the lens of the camera, this intrigued seal is ready for his close up .
Swimming side by side with divers, these manatees will do anything they can to stay warm .
PUSHING the diver out of his way, this little sea turtle shows he’s not in the mood for photographs .
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 .
ROLLING across a 65-metre-high viaduct in the Alps, the red carriages of the Bernina Express add a splash of colour to the spectacular snow-covered Swiss surroundings .
CLIMBING, falling and tugging on his weary mum, this little orangutan is up to all kinds of trouble .
A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .
An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .