
A baby elephant wallows in the mud, but then found himself unable to stand up again. Heavy rain in the Masai Mara created the perfect mud hole, and the youngster wasted no time in going for a roll. However, when he tried to get to his feet again, he was simply unable to stand and kept slipping over. The moment was captured on camera by professional wildlife photographer Andy Rouse, who had been following the herd.
Picture: Andy Rouse / Rex Features
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White Bengal Tiger
by Christine Haines
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Young Giraffe
Auckland, New Zealand
by Andrew Ross
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A half submerged nile hippo in the water, Uganda
by Jonothan Hen-Boisen
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Penguin Parents Love
In the harsh world of Antarctica the emperor penguins fight every day for survival and to protect their only chicken.
by Anneliese & Claus Possberg
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This is the moment an unlucky bird was plucked from mid-air by a sparrowhawk. The scene was caught on camera by photographer Margitta Schuff Thomann at the Isola Della Cona nature reserve in Italy.
Picture: MARGITTA SCHUFF THOMANN / CATERS NEWS

This seal known as Sammy or Sally regularly visits Billingsgate Market at Canary Wharf, London, to be fed by the fish market porters
Picture: David Taylor / Rex Features

Real-life kung fu pandas play in the snow. Josef Gelernter captured the cute red pandas rolling around in the snow at the Tiergarten Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna.
Picture: JOSEF GELERNTER / CATERS NEWS

Lenticular clouds pass in sweeping layers over the port village of Fionnphort on the Isle of Mull in the Inner Hebrides. The high-altitude lens-shaped formations often have a smooth, saucer-like shape and have sometimes been mistaken for UFOs.
Picture: PictureScotland / Alamy

Playful Elephant Calf, Simbavati River Lodge, South Africa
by Christof Schoeman Wildlife Photography
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A series of photos of an Humpback whale breaching merged into one, South Africa
by Dafna Ben Nun Photography
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A tiny mouse makes a bid for freedom as a hungry owl swoops down behind it. Photographer Roman Lobanov captured the huge owl swooping down behind the tiny mouse before pouncing on the unlucky rodent and flying off with its prey, in Rybinsk, Russia.
Picture: ROMAN LOBANOV / CATERS NEWS

An elephant picks himself up, dusts himself off and showers himself in dust again. The huge African elephant was spotted enjoying a dust shower by wildlife photographer Theo Allofs at a dried-up part of the Hoanib River in Kunene, Namibia.
Picture: Theo Allofs/Minden Pictures/Solent News & Photo Agency

The northern lights shimmer in the sky above the Holy Assumption of the Virgin Mary Russian Orthodox church in Kenai, Alaska
Picture: M. Scott Moon/AP

The Aurora Borealis lights up the sky at twilight between the towns of Are and Ostersund, Sweden
Picture: JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP/Getty Images