Staring death in the face, a little field mouse bravely confronts a hungry cat. The rodent, after being locked in a tense stare down with its feline foe, narrowly escapes the paws of the predator by scurrying to freedom. The moment was captured by French nutrition student Enora Lebosse in her garden in Brittany, France. The 20-year-old, originally of Saint-Malo, France, says: ‘My pet cat, Bastet, was hot on the heels of a little field mouse…
MEET the little lion of suburbia with a mane that makes him look like a mini-king of the jungle .
STRIKING photos capture nature at its most raw and powerful during Earth’s most electrifying event .
WIDE EYED with a huge smile across her face, this little elephant is a picture of happiness .
A cricket perches on an unusual seat after crawling up the snout of a crocodile .
Armed with a snorkel, flippers and her skimpy bikini, an intrepid female free diver swims alongside an array of reef sharks .
BRAIDED, sculpted and beaded, these are the eye-catching hairstyles worn by the tribal women of Angola .
A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico .
SWIMMING in unison, millions of silverside fish dwarf the divers .
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 .
A hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws .
EAGERLY BITING his nails, this little squirrel is clearly nervous of looming predators as he searches for his meal .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .