FLAUNTING its new accessory, a fashionable green dumpy tree frog poses for the camera while wearing a SNAIL as a hat .

BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .

HUNDREDS of hot air balloons decorate the sky above Turkey as the rising sun illuminates the spectacular scenery below .

A young orangutan comes over all shy as she hides her face behind a broken bucket .

A family who were refused the location of their missing cat under the Data Protection Act have been reunited with their moggie after the keepers handed him back .

This hungry white tiger has just one thing on her mind - to taste fresh meat .

AN ARRAY of colours, from pinks to blues and oranges, fill the night sky to create an amazing collection of interstellar patterns .

Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .

A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .

A man who was stabbed ten times in a frenzied and random attack has told how, two years on, he is too scared to leave his house without his STAB VEST .

Those with a fear of flying and a ticket to Lukla Airport will want to look away now .

A brave leopard kicks back and relaxes in the sunshine - just inches from an enormous crocodile .