A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish. Swimming through the water, the striking predator spots a prone sardine and goes straight for the kill. The brilliant underwater photographs were captured off the tip of the Baja California peninsula in Mexico by American wildlife photographer Doug Perrine. The 62-year-old, of Kailua Kona, Hawaii, says: ‘The striped marlins have broken these sardines off from a giant shoal deep below, and forced them upwards to trap them against the surface of the water…
SPLASHING around in a paddling pool, this little elephant soaks up the sunshine .
NEW DELHI, A woman activist of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party crosses a police barricade near the residence of ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi during a protest against the recent rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, April 21, 2013 .
FLEXING his muscles and staring straight at his opponent, this bodybuilding squirrel is the nuts .
WITH HIS PAW covering his mouth, this cheeky cub looks amused by something .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
SWIMMING next to 40 tonne whales, dare-devil divers take the plunge with these gentle giants of the sea .
A terrified moose, trapped in a frozen lake, bobs her head above the icey water and awaits her rescue .
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LEAF-ing much to the imagination, this camera trickery is blooming marvellous .
An osprey soars through the air at 30 miles per hour before swooping down to catch its prey from a lake .
SQUABBLING over the last piece of grain, these hungry squirrels are determined to stock up on as much food as possible .
A kingfisher’s bright blue and orange feathers glisten in the sunlight as the bird dives into a lake .