Jostling their quills into the noses of some unlucky cubs, this is the moment two feisty porcupines ALMOST defeat a pride of seven lions. The porcupines, after leaving their spikey mark, hurry away from the pack of big cats. But they are unable to escape when the pride's alpha male lion arrives and devours the retreating spine covered rodents. Amateur photographer and software tester Philip Eglise witness the battle during a trip to the Kalahari Desert, South Africa .
Heart pounding, Rebecca Cain jumped as a car door slammed on the street outside .
FINALLY catching a meal, a pair of great white egrets fight over their dinner .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
SNEAKING slowly into the water, this Bengal tiger plans a vicious attack on three unsuspecting deer .
PERCHED on a branch, these two frogs hold hands as they look into the camera .
A mother-of-four has revealed how, like the Beckhams, she’s added an outside toilet to her home .
A woman has spoken of her heartbreak after she was rejected by an adoption agency because of her pregnancy phobia .
A pair of chicks bravely decided to befriend a python, despite being the snake's favourite choice of food .
A woman brutally beaten in a revenge attack has slammed the soft sentence handed to her assailant .
A kingfisher’s bright blue and orange feathers glisten in the sunlight as the bird dives into a lake .
THIS is the EXPLOSIVE moment when a 50 metre high pylon came crashing down to earth in a rural field .