LINED up one by one on a deer’s back, these little birds give their wings a break as they catch a ride across London. Aware of her hitchhikers, the female red deer seems unfazed as the starlings arrive. The scene was photographed by 16-year-old student Samuel Aron on a day out in Richmond Park, London. Samuel, of Watford, says: ‘I have seen this behaviour before from starlings, but I have never seen so many on one deer.
TRYING their best to wriggle away, three adorable tiger cubs receive their health checks at Chester Zoo .
A diving guide leaves a shark completely docile and balanced in the palm of his hand .
A woman has told how she fled to Australia, after a one night stand burned down her house .
SWIMMING in unison, millions of silverside fish dwarf the divers .
A terrified moose, trapped in a frozen lake, bobs her head above the icey water and awaits her rescue .
A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .
LEAPING through the air this determined little mouse is on a mission for food .
These are the faces of orphans suffering from the horrifying effects of chemical warfare .
Those with a fear of flying and a ticket to Lukla Airport will want to look away now .
A BROWN bear wades through waters in Alaska and waits for his lunch .