WITHOUT a care in the world, this little chimpanzee shows off her gymnastic skills as she swings around her enclosure. The blissful ape throws herself around using trees, branches and ropes in Southwick's Zoo in Mendon, Massachusetts. The playful scene was captured by photographer Abeselom Zerit when he visited the zoo in north-western America. The 43-year-old, of Pawtucket , Rhode Island, says: "This adolescent chimp, named Tanzie, turned six in March and she reminds me a lot of my own five-year-old - very curious and rascally!
A woman who starved herself to look like Cheryl Cole has told how she shrunk to just under 5st 13lbs after developing anorexia .
A mother has spoken of her outrage after discovering her missing cat had been stolen - only to be told she cannot have its location due to the Data Protection Act .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
A disabled sheep is enjoying a new fleece of life after receiving a specially-designed wheelchair .
FEAST your eyes onthe £3K luxury yurts that rock legend Mick Jagger will be basking in between Glastonbury performances this weekend .
A baby girl has become the youngest British patient to receive a life-saving cardiac operation after her heart swelled to twice its normal size within days of her birth .
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Surveying its surroundings, a tiny harvest mouse climbs the stem of a dandelion .
Meet the real-life Little Bo Peep - a young woman who spends her days tending to her four pet SHEEP .
SWIMMING in unison, millions of silverside fish dwarf the divers .
FROM ICE bubbles to boiling lava, these photographs highlight the stunning shapes and patterns found in nature .
Standing on the edge of a never-ending black hole, this is one leap you wouldn't want to make .