Animal photos


This hungry chipmunk must be a real health nut, as it appears to be reading through the list of ingredients on a breakfast bar wrapper before tucking in. Keen photographer Michael Higgins spotted the chipmunk looking as though he was reading a newspaper while on a camping trip at Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada.

A pointercross named Lejon plays with a three-week-old white lion cub named Jojo at a zoo in Stukenbrock, Germany


A tiger grabs a chunk of meat underwater at the Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, California


Shanga the mother gorilla appears to be tickling her baby's feet at Chessington World of Adventures


First-time mother Shanga gets to grips with her new born baby gorilla at Chessington World of Adventures


Feijie the orangutan pretends to play badminton, with a racquet and shuttlecock, at Xiangjiang Safari Park in Guangzhou, China


...and clutches a table tennis bat while wearing a gold medal around his neck

A monkeys keeps cool during summer heat at Nanjing Zoo, Jiangsu Province, China

A baby rhesus macaque plays with a tiger cub at a zoo in Hefei, Anhui province, China


Two reticulated giraffe play at the zoo in Cologne, western Germany


Sarah, an 11-year-old cheetah at the Cincinnati Zoo, breaks her own world record by running 100m in 5.95 seconds in this National Geographic magazine picture taken at the zoo's Regional Cheetah Breeding Facility (Mast Farm) in Clermont County, Ohio. Sarah was clocked at 61mph (101kph) and broke her previous record of 6.13 seconds which she set in 2009.

Muscovy ducklings swim between bubbles, caused by rain drops from an afternoon thunderstorm, at a pond in Pembroke Pines, Florida, US

A young seal looks out of a tub at a seal nursery in Friedrichskoog, northern Germany. The animal was found at a shipyard in Hamburg at the beginning of July and was brought to the nursery.


Li Bingyin walks behind his pet dog pulling a cart carrying his heavy shopping in Kaili city, Guizhou province, China

A diver swims with a huge ocean sunfish off the coast of San Diego, California


A red squirrel leaps from one branch to another at Loch Awe, Scotland

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