THIS 22-foot-high stainless-steel tower is full of 5,000 refug-BEES relocated from their natural hive. A colony of honey bees call this tower home and produce around five gallons of honey during the spring and summer months by flying up to five miles to collect pollen from local wild flowers. Created for a student project this tower, called Hive City was built on formally abandoned land in Buffalo, USA - and is designed so human visitors can watch the bees go about their business in the hive. Designer Courtney Creenan, 26, from SUNY University explained the idea behind the giant home for bees. 'We won a competition to design a habitat for a large bee colony that needed to be relocated,' he said
This brave Hyena finally catches his pray among the thousands of flamingos, Lake Nakuru, Kenya - OUTNUMBERED among thousands of flamingos, this bold hyena is not put off from hunting for a morning snack .
SPLASHING around in a paddling pool, this little elephant soaks up the sunshine .
Swimming side by side with divers, these manatees will do anything they can to stay warm .
Leaping out of the ocean, a group of gentoo penguins fly through the air before landing safely on an iceberg .
A German photographer travelled around Africa where he met and photographed members of tribes in a series of intimate portraits .
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IT'S the iconic TV show that influenced a whole generation in the 1990s .
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