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…
FISTS fly as two gorillas take each other on in a dramatic battle .
SWIMMING slowly towards the shore, a small group of bottlenose dolphins arrive for breakfast at a beach in Western Australia .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
A cricket perches on an unusual seat after crawling up the snout of a crocodile .
WIDE EYED and staring straight down the lens of the camera, this intrigued seal is ready for his close up .
FULLY equipped with a kitchen and lounge, it's hard to believe this modern holiday let is actually a BUS .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
WITH THEIR adorable big round eyes and fluffy white fur, these baby seals are cute enough to melt any heart .
A NINJA red squirrel cuts a dashing figure as the little fella jumps up to ten-feet between treetops in the Yorkshire Dales .
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
