SOARING through the air, this is the moment a hungry tawny owl arrives home with dinner. After swooping down from a branch to catch its prey, the owl safely hands over a field mouse to his family in their nest. The breathtaking photographs were captured by Italian photographer Jacopo Rigotti, 24, after he spent weeks photographing the majestic birds in South Tyrol, Italy. “My home is surrounded by forests, rivers and mountains and I am always in close contact with many species of owls,” says Jacopo, of Trentino, Italy.
FINALLY catching a meal, a pair of great white egrets fight over their dinner .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
This cheeky chappie is getting into all kinds of monkey business as he enjoys cooling off on a scorching hot day .
DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .
A makeup artist from the West Midlands magically transforms herself into famous cartoon characters using body paint .
A 20st mum-of-four who was dangerously obese has lost half her body weight after her son drew her as a BLOB at school .
WELCOME to the real Frankenstein's lab where carefully pickled creatures are left to stew in jars .
A mother-of-four has revealed how, like the Beckhams, she’s added an outside toilet to her home .
With a dust covered coat hung from a wardrobe door and a pair of glasses left on a shelf, a remote farmhouse lies abandoned in the Welsh countryside .
HOTSPOT MEDIA - EVANDER HOLYFIELD VISITS SICK KIDS: Evander Holyfield in Birmingham children's hospital, where he was giving presents to sick kids .
A cheeky chipmunk offers some of his spare food, before deciding against the idea and shoving the extra peanut into his already crammed mouth .