SWIMMING slowly towards the shore, a small group of bottlenose dolphins arrive for breakfast at a beach in Western Australia .

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

STRETCHING his little legs in the air, a smiley leaf-tailed gecko breaks free from his old, scaly skin .

A cheeky gorilla sticks her tongue out and plays up for the camera at Bronx Zoo .

A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .

A woman with a rare condition that means she collapses every time she laughs fears she may have passed the rare illness onto her young son .

When personal trainer, Victoria Spence dreamt of achieving a ‘thigh gap’, she didn'’t realise her obsession would leave her body gripped by anorexia .

A hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws .

A young woman who once weighed the same as 12-year-old girl has told how a severely malnourished cat helped save her life and beat her anorexia .

A dog was SOW close to death after she dangerously swallowed a two-inch NEEDLE-Cute Shih Tzu Daisy could have pierced her intestines after eating the long needle and thread after finding it on the carpet .

It’s a role reversal in the Visayan Sea as HUNDREDS of tiny, glistening eggs are carried around inside the mouth of their cardinalfish father .

SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .