A 10-month-old Tasmanian Devil joey pays its first visit to the vet for health checks at Healesville Sanctuary, Melbourne, Australia.
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Photograph: Robert Leeson/Newspix/Rex Features
We love these Sulawesi crested black macaques in Indonesia – this is one of the shortlisted images in the Sony world photography awards. Enjoy!
Día Mundial Contra de la Lucha contra el Sida
World Day Against Aids
Exciting time
Hot air balloons tour, taken at about 400 meters during sunrise above Çavuçin (Turkey).
Photo: by Alessio Andreani
Night Tumblr - we’ll leave you with this great pic! Men feed migratory birds from a boat on the Yamuna River in New Delhi, India. Several species of migratory birds from places as far as Siberia arrive in Delhi in October and leave by March. Photograph: Tsering Topgyal/AP
Dragon’s Blood Trees
Photo by: Mark W. Moffett, National Geographic
The north and the south pole are haunting and awe-inspiring in equal measure – the icebergs bathe in blues of all hues, constantly sculpted by fierce winds. Polar bears stalk the ice sheets, and underneath, ancient creatures, some still undiscovered, swim in deep dark waters.
Dave Walsh’s photographs show what it is like to be truly on the edge. The images taken during Greenpeace expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica, between 2007 and 2010, question our romantic relationship with remote, harsh and pristine environments of the polar regions. See the full gallery here
