BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo. Photographer Lessy Sebastian watched in awe as he witnessed the powerful feline pounce on a chicken held by a zoo keeper. The 51-year-old spent two hours at the tiger enclosure when he visited Ragunan Zoo in Jakarta, Indonesia. Lessy, of Jakarta, Indonesia, says: “It was pure luck that I arrived just in time to see the tigers being fed.
A chipmunk, with his cheeks full to bursting, has no intention of leaving with an empty stomach .
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 .
With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .
IN a galaxy far, far away, this collection of stunning interstellar formations will leave you STARSTRUCK .
FLAUNTING its new accessory, a fashionable green dumpy tree frog poses for the camera while wearing a SNAIL as a hat .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
A GLOWING range of greens and blues sweep across the sky in a spectacular display of light .
From squids to Star Wars, these flipping marvellous creations are pancake portraits .
TUGGING at his exhausted mum's ears, a beautiful baby orangutan refuses to settle for a nap as he begins a game of peek-a-boo .
A photographer from the United Arab Emirates travelled to Pakistan where he captured the lives of local people in a series of expressive portraits .
MEET the little lion of suburbia with a mane that makes him look like a mini-king of the jungle .
DIPPING and diving their way through this bumpy journey, these giraffe's duck for cover as they dodge multiple cables and wires .