CHEEKY BABY GORILLA

THIS cheeky gorilla tries his best to wriggle free from his mum. After a day of being carried around, he has finally had enough as he tries to escape from her arms. These heart-warming photographs captured by Dr Michal Samuni-Blank show this doting mother Gorilla and her three week old Infant in Bronx Zoo, New York.

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SLEEPY GROUNDHOG

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A GRIZZLY GANG

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SNEAKY OTTER

A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .

BRANDED BY VICIOUS BOYFRIEND'S SOVEREIGN RING

A deranged dad beat his girlfriend so savagely in a vicious 30 minute attack that the indent of his sovereign ring was left on her face .

FLYING PENGUINS LEAP OUT OF THE OCEAN

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TEEN DANCER ROBBED OF TALENTS AFTER SCOLIOSIS SURGERY

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SWALLOW WHOLE - YOUNG BIRD ENJOYS DINNER TIME

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