FREEZING MANATEES STRUGGLE TO STAY WARM
Swimming side by side with divers, these manatees will do anything they can to stay warm. The gentle giants have travelled 300 miles from the cold winter waters of the Gulf of Mexico to the springs of Crystal River, Florida. For manatees, it is vital they retain as much body heat as possible, otherwise their digestive systems can shut down. Belgian photographer Ellen Cuylaerts visited the lumbering 1,200lb creatures in the Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge, where sick manatees are rescued and given care and surgery to get them back in the wild.
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ANIMAL WHISPERER TAMES SILKY SHARK
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SEAL GETS READY FOR HIS CLOSE UP
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MUM TOLD GET DOWN GYM FATTY
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WHEELCHAIR BASEJUMPER
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DEAD MEDIA: ARTIST CREATES SKULL OUT OF OBSOLETE VHS
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£10K SPOILT POOCHES - WOMAN SPENDS MORE ON DOGS THAN BOYFRIEND AT XMAS
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RED SMOKE AT NIGHT, VOLCANO SPOTTERS DELIGHT
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CHEEKY MONKEY COOLS OFF IN APRIL SHOWERS
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TOY CAR ADVENTURES
These images of vintage cars, bikes and vans, pictured all over the world, could easily have come from a globetrotting petrol-head’s photo album .
COUPLE RECREATE ICONIC SCENES FROM THE NOTEBOOK
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IRISH WOMAN FIRST ADULT IN WORLD TO GET BIONIC SPINE
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CUTE MINI LION
MEET the little lion of suburbia with a mane that makes him look like a mini-king of the jungle .