BASKING in smug satisfaction, a confident squirrel gives a wink to the camera. After spending a morning stealing a stash of nuts and seed from his squirrel friends, he sits down to enjoy his well-earned lunch. The pictures of this cheeky squirrel were captured by emergency services worker Claire Hartley, 35, on a trip to Hartsholme Park, near Lincoln. “Several squirrels had been competing to get as many nuts as possible,” says Claire, of Lincoln.
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WELCOME to the Temple of Zoom where you can “experience” sliding down a Mayan temple into shark infested waters .
LYING flat out on his back, this little meerkat makes the most of the English sunshine .
A lazy tree frog, tired of hopping along a branch, chooses the slowest form of transport when it jumps on top of an unsuspecting snail .
Jostling their quills into the noses of some unlucky cubs, this is the moment two feisty porcupines ALMOST defeat a pride of seven lions .
Families in an Indian slum put their lives on the line by living on top of an ACTIVE railway track .
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Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .
THIS may look like a dolphin through jumping hoops, but it is in fact nothing more than a clever 3D pencil drawing .
An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .
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