HUDDLING under a leaf, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls take shelter from the rain .

COVERING themselves in ash and face paint, these are the holy men who live their lives away from everyday society .

When personal trainer, Victoria Spence dreamt of achieving a ‘thigh gap’, she didn'’t realise her obsession would leave her body gripped by anorexia .

An adorable young fallow deer peers over its shoulder and is greeted by a cheeky jackdaw crow sitting on its back .

DIPPING his head into the vase of water, this little squirrel takes a refreshing break from an afternoon of eating .

A man has lost an incredible 20st after his addiction to food left him £15k in debt .

The mother of a young woman stabbed 26 times by her ex-partner for having a secret abortion has told how her daughter was cruelly betrayed by her own social worker .

A BROWN bear wades through waters in Alaska and waits for his lunch .

A pair of bank myna birds fight it out in front of their ladies .

A woman left disfigured and traumatised by an addiction to lip filler injections has issued a warning to others searching for the perfect pout after the plastic chemicals nearly killed her .

STRETCHING his little legs in the air, a smiley leaf-tailed gecko breaks free from his old, scaly skin .

SURROUNDED by a snowstorm, these young polar bears battle the elements - as well as each other .