This jaguar in Brazil swam silently across the river to ambush the unsuspecting caiman on the opposite bank. The 20-stone cat sank its teeth and claws into the 8 foot reptile, then carried it off in its jaws, swimming back across the river with its catch.
This little vole has been seen whittling away from his nest in the Kent woodland, and caught the eye of amateur snapper Mark Bridger.
Tourists at Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in Mabuasehube, Botswana were amazed to see this hyena nip into the outdoor campsite bathroom for a soak just metres away from them.
Word must have got out about the leaking shower, two lions turned up after the hyena in search of some water. Within a few minutes a pride of eight more lions descended on the outdoor shower.
Two geese looks out of step as they surrounded by a massive flock of black birds. The white geese cut a striking figure against the dark storm clouds and thousands of Red Winged Blackbirds
A tuna swims among a school of fish at Galapagos Marine Reserve.
Dustin Bockman lies on top of his record setting alligator, weighing 727 pounds (330 kg) and measuring 13 feet (3.96 m), captured in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Dustin, a 27-year-old UPS driver, and his crew spotted the mammoth creature in the Mississippi River and trailed it for two hours before getting close enough to spear it. It took another two hours to hook it with a second line and noose its neck.
Keepers hand-rear baby elephant rejected by mother at Shendiao Mountain Zoo, Weihai, Shandong Province, China. When the mother of this cub gave birth early on 31 August she immediately appeared very agitated and refused to have anything to do with it. Zoo keepers then had to step in to rescue the cub and are now hand-rearing it..
The Memphis Zoo announced the first Snow Leopard birth in more than a decade. The cub, a male, was born to parents ‘Ateri’ and ‘Darhan.’ Ateri, a first-time mother, is nursing the cub behind the scenes. The public will be invited to vote on their favorite of seven pre-chosen names.
A bumblebee approaches a sunflower in Godewaersvelde, Germany
British diver Pash Baker photographed this whale shark in the Red Sea. These sea-beasts weigh in at an average of twenty tonnes as they cruise the ocean’s waters in their quest to consume as much plankton as they possibly can.
This giraffe took such a dislike to this cyclist – who was taking picture of the giraffe on his mobile phone – that the enraged 18-foot-tall creature gave chase, eventually destroying the cyclist’s mountain bike. The cyclist who stirred up the giraffe’s anger, Louise John Rex and his friend Ryk van Niekerk, who took the footage, were travelling by bike across the Groenkloof Nature Reserve in Pretoria, South Africa.’I had to jump off my bike immediately – there was no time to drive away,’ said Louise
Two male cheetah cubs, Winspear and Kamau, born July 8, that have joined the Dallas Zoo population
A greedy chipmunk looks ready to burst after stuffing her cheeks full with peanuts
source:::::The Telegraph uk
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