AN ANGRY giraffe gave a bush-riding cyclist a scare when he stomped his £2K bike into the dirt. Pictures show how the determined 18-foot-tall creature took such a dislike to this cyclist - who was taking picture of the giraffe on his mobile phone - that the enraged animal gave chase until he finally destroyed the cyclist's mountain bike. The cyclist who stirred up the giraffe's anger, Louise John Rex and his friend Ryk van Niekerk, who took the footage, were travelling by bike across the Groenkloof Nature Reserve in Pretoria, South Africa.'I had to jump off my bike immediately - there was no time to drive away,' said Louise.
Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .
COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them .
PILES of trash provide a living for thousands in Nairobi, Kenya .
A US firefighter has battled osteoarthritis and four hip replacements to break the world paddleboarding record .
SWIMMING slowly towards the shore, a small group of bottlenose dolphins arrive for breakfast at a beach in Western Australia .
GETTING behind the camera, this monkey practices his photography skills on his friends .
A stunning ice cave in Iceland is illuminated by sunlight as the bright blue ice appears glow inside .
An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
A teacher has told how she was attacked by a murderer on her way home from a night out but courageously managed to charm him out of strangling her .
Gigantic 100ft waves create the perfect playground for dare-devil surfers from across the world .