A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy. Jacopo Rigotti, of Val Di Cembra, Trento, Italy, photographed the bird as she flew towards her nest, located in the trunk of a black pine tree, before feeding her hungry chicks a beakful of insects. The 25-year-old photographer says: "I decided to set up the camera on a tripod at the base of the tree, along with a flash that would help to prevent shadows in the photographs."
While often referred to as the kings of the jungle, gorillas - for all their might - are notorious hydrophobes .
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Splashing around in the water, a mother otter and her son are tangled in a family feud .
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A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .