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[SIZE=4]You’re faster… can you give me a lift? Photographer captures heartwarming moment cheetah cub hitched a ride off a sibling[/SIZE]

When they grow up to become some of the fastest land animals alive, these adorable baby cheetahs won’t need a lift to get from A to B.
But as they are still growing, a couple of these young big cats opted for a cheeky piggyback off their siblings as they scampered around Tanzania’s dusty savanna.
The playful ten-week-old cubs were practicing the renowned sprinting skills which will see them reach speeds of 75mph when fully grown.

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Fancy a lift: The cheetah prepares to hoist itself onto its reluctant sibling’s back as playtime continues

Off you go: A cheeky cheetah hops on its sibling’s back as the young group race around the Tanzanian savannah

Perfect dismount: The lazy cub appears to have had enough of his free ride as he leaps from his sibling’s back

Not interested: While two cheetah cubs scrap in the dust playfully, one of their siblings looks less than impressed as it tries to relax

Time for a climb: As well as showing off their already enviable sprinting skills, the cheetah cubs showed off their climbing abilities when they scaled this Tanzanian tree

I’ll get you: A cheetah cub playfully pounces on another family member in another wonderfully intimate image

Leave me out of it: At one point photographer Paul captured the cubs playing with a less-than-amused adult cheetah

Having a break: Four cheetah cubs take a break from their running exercises by peering out from this tree

Bouncing babies: The cheetahs showed off their energy levels at ten-weeks-old

Having a nibble: A cheetah cub tests out the sharpness of its teeth by having a playful bite of an adult’s fur
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[SIZE=4]Well it probably does look a little bit like a nesting box if you’re a Blue Tit! Bird hatches three tiny chicks in pub’s cigarette bin[/SIZE]
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Men have long since visited the pub to check out the local birds - but you’re likely to find a totally different kind of chick in this drinking hole.
Staff at The Green Man, in Welling, Kent, were stunned when they discovered that a Blue Tit had hijacked a cigarette bin in their beer garden.
The plucky bird clearly wasn’t put off by the smell and made a makeshift nest out of feathers, twigs and moss.

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Hatched: The chicks will be fed by their mother until they are old enough to leave their unconventional nest

Inside the bin: The mother Blue Tit has prepared a nest to house her new family

Home tweet home: Customers have been banned from disposing of their cigarettes in the bin

Landlords Steve and Lisa Coobold with employee David Hall were startled when they discovered the small bird nesting in their beer garden

Blue Tits find small holes to nest in to keep predators at bay
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Sarcastic Fringehead, if I had discovered it I would have called it angry vagina mouth fish
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[SIZE=4]You gotta friend in me-ow: Fox cub blinded by car accident becomes best buddies with three abandoned kittens[/SIZE]

Everyone has heard of the fox and the hound but it’s not every day you see these cunning creatures hanging out with cats.
But for this injured fox cub an unlikely friendship with three kindly kittens may well have saved his life as they kept him warm during his recovery at Kent Wildlife Rescue centre.
The fox had been found with severe head injuries by side of a dual carriageway in Sidcup, Kent, after he was hit by a speeding car on April 11.

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The fox formed an incredible bond with three kittens who kept him warm as he came out of a coma

Friends: The kittens and the fox cub became inseparable after they were housed in the same cage

Recovery: The cub has now regained his sight and his health and will shortly be released back into the wild

Feline fine: The kittens are playful and in good health and are currently waiting to be re-homed

‘The cats needed something to snuggle up to’: Centre manager Lorraine St John was touched by the friendship
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[SIZE=4]Agonising death of the King of the Jungle: Young lion doomed to starve after poacher’s snare got caught so tightly round his neck he couldn’t eat[/SIZE]

Wire snare caught so tightly around his neck he cannot eat, this young male lion is doomed to die a slow and agonising death.
Within a matter of days he will be lying in the African bush gasping his last breath.
Nor is he alone in his grim fate. The sight is increasingly common in parts of the continent when a growing number of lions have fallen victim to poaching.
Some wander by mistake into snares that are meant for other animals such as antelope which are hunted by poachers for bushmeat.
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Desperately injured: The young male lion cub was spotted in Mikumi National Park in Tanzania with a poacher’s snare twisted cruelly round his neck

Doomed to die: The wire was twisted so tight that the lion was unable to eat

Weak: The animal was so sick it struggled to raise its head as park wardens approached

Lucrative: Many of the snares are set by poachers who then butcher the animals for their parts which are used in traditional Chinese medicine

The final journey: The lion slopes off into the long grass of the park where he would soon die either of starvation or infection
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[SIZE=4]Meet Florence, the world’s first vegetarian shark who prefers celery sticks and cucumber to fish[/SIZE]

A shark at the Birmingham National Sea Life Center is surprising her handlers - she appears to be the world’s first vegetarian shark.
Florence, a six-foot nurse shark, started life as a meat-eater, but following an operation in 2009 to remove a rusty hook from her jaw, she has completely stopped eating her normal prey.
In fact, her handlers need to resort to devious tactics to get protein into Florence’s diet - such as hiding pieces of fish inside her celery, and even in hollowed-out cucumbers.

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Watch out lettuce! The nurse shark at the Birmingham National Sea Life Center in England appears to be the world’s first vegetarian shark

Eating away: The shark refuses to eat any form of meat or fish - so staff try to sneak fish into the lettuce

Painful: Florence, had to undergo a risky out-of-water surgery procedure to remove a rusty hook from her jaw

The hook that caused all the pain: The operation in 2009 may have led to the shark’s lack of appetite for meat
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[SIZE=4]Who is up for it then, chaps? Kayakers paddle up to the precipice of the Victoria Falls… but did they dare to go over the top?[/SIZE]

These daredevil kayakers must be real water-fools - as they stand peering straight down a 350ft drop.
Adventurers Steve Fisher, 37, Dale Jardine, 33, both from South Africa, and Sam Drevo, 33, from the U.S., paddled up to the lip of the mile-wide Victoria Falls - the largest waterfall in the world.
Standing on one of the islands that appear during the dry season, they were able to look over the edge of the massive torrent of water, which flows between the African nations of Zambia and Zimbabwe.

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These daredevil kayakers must be real water-fools - as they stand peering straight down a 350ft drop

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[SIZE=4]Uh, OK, if you say so, guys. So who WOULD would dare to pick these flowers?[/SIZE]

It’s often an idyllic summer scene - skipping through flower-filled fields of colour as the sun beams down.
But anyone considering a jaunt through this particularly glorious display of bluebells may want to think twice, as the wonderful summery scene is part of a lion’s enclosure.
Even so, in the age of 'elf and safety, safari park keepers felt the need to state the incredibly obvious to its visitors, as they erected a ‘do not pick the flowers’ sign metres away from the fearsome-looking big cats.

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Look but don’t touch: Two lions prowl their territory at Longleat Safari Park

Only the most foolhardy of safari park visitors would be stupid enough to venture into this idyllic enclosure

the lion pride stares out towards visitors at Longleat in front of the somewhat unnecessary sign

Three’s a crowd: The fearsome lions at Longleat do a far more effective job in protecting the bluebells than any sign ever could
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[SIZE=4]The 10 most painful stings on the planet, by the self-sacrificing man who tried 150 different varieties in the name of science[/SIZE]

Most of us will have felt the pain of a bee sting. Luckily most of us will have avoided the dreaded pain of a tarantula hawk or a fire ant.
Justin Schmidt felt all three of these - and 147 other horrible, burning sensations - after a dedicated life-long career devoted to insects.
On numerous fieldwork trips, The University of Arizona entomologist would find himself digging up living colonies of creatures, who in turn were not happy with this destructive human scooping them into bags - and promptly sank their fangs, stingers or pincers into him.
Still, no pain, no gain, and Schmidt turned his experiences into the Schmidt Sting Pain Index, ranking 78 species in a list which, while subjective, was put together by the man who must surely know best, ranking their pain on a scale of 1 to 4.

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COUNTDOWN OF THE TOP 10 STINGERS: HOW SCHMIDT RATED THE PAIN
****10) SWEAT BEE

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RATING: 1.0
**SCHMIDT SAYS: **Light, ephemeral, almost fruity. A tiny spark has singed a single hair on your arm.

****9) FIRE ANT

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**RATING: **1.2
**SCHMIDT SAYS: **Sharp, mildly alarming. Like walking across a shag carpet and reaching for the light switch.

****8) BULLHORN ACACIA ANT

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**RATING: **1.8
**SCHMIDT SAYS: **A rare, piercing, elevated sort of pain. Someone has fired a staple into your cheek.

****7) BALD-FACED HORNET

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RATING: 2.0
**SCHMIDT SAYS: **Rich, hearty, slightly crunchy. Similar to getting your hand mashed in a revolving door.

****6) YELLOWJACKET

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**RATING: **2.0
**SCHMIDT SAYS: **Hot and smoky, almost irreverent. Imagine W. C. Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue.

****5) HONEYBEE

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**RATING: **2.0
**SCHMIDT SAYS: **The sensation is like a matchhead that flips off and burns on your skin.

****4) RED HARVESTER ANT

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**RATING: **3.0
**SCHMIDT SAYS: **Bold and unrelenting. Somebody is using a drill to excavate your ingrown toenail.

****3) PAPER WASP

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**RATING: **3.0
**SCHMIDT SAYS: **Distinctly bitter aftertaste. Like spilling a beaker of hydrochloric acid on a paper cut.

****2) TARANTULA HAWK

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**RATING: **4.0
**SCHMIDT SAYS: **Blinding, shockingly electric. A running hair drier has been dropped into your bubble bath.

****KING OF THE STINGS: BULLET ANT

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**RATING: **4+
**SCHMIDT SAYS: **Like fire-walking over flaming charcoal with a 3-inch rusty nail grinding into your heel.
He also gave un-scientific-sounding but apt descriptions for each pain, for instance the sting of the yellowjacket wasp felt ‘hot and smoky, almost irreverent. Imagine W. C. Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue.’.

According to io9, entomologist May Berenbaum described Schmidt’s char as: ‘A scale from 0 to 4, in which 0 was defined as the sensation of being stung by an insect that cannot penetrate human skin to 2, a familiar intermediate pain (honey bee), to 4, an intensely painful sting.’

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**[SIZE=4]Grieving pit bull stays with dead mate for 14 HOURS… and four days later, he’s still so sad he can’t be adopted **[/SIZE]

The sad sight of a male pit bull mourning by the side of his dead partner has moved many to tears after it was posted to Facebook.
On Friday, the female pit bull was killed by a car on South 16th Street in Phoenix, but her partner refused to abandon her.
The male dog stayed by her side for more than 14 hours before Animal Control removed her body and now, they say, he is still so depressed he may not be able to find a home to adopt him.

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A photo of a pit bull mourning his partner has moved many to tears after it was posted to Facebook

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The female pit bull was killed by a car on South 16th Street in Phoenix, but her partner refused to go

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Till Death: The male dog stayed by her side for more than 14 hours before Animal Control removed her body and now, they say, he is still so depressed he may not be able to find a home to adopt him

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[SIZE=4]Operation Muddy Fox: Trapped cub is rescued from hole caked in sludge and is back to his adorable best after a good scrub[/SIZE]

This adorable young fox cub made a not exactly clean escape from a spot of bother when he was hauled from a building site caked in mud.
The four-month-old fox was rescued from an urban building site near London’s Canary Wharf, where he had been spotted in a deep muddy hole with no chance of escape.
And far from being just having muddy paws or a light covering of dust, the hapless animal was completely covered in a thick layer of dried sludge from head to foot.

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The fox was in dire need of cleaning up when he was rescued from an urban building site in Canary Wharf

after some food, water, and a long scrub down, ‘Muddsey’ was back to his normal self at the wildlife hospital
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[SIZE=4]Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam: Couple share their house with TWO giant beasts (and they even catch a lift in the family car)[/SIZE]

Have you herd the one about the couple who live with two buffaloes? Here are the pictures to prove it.
RC Bridges, nicknamed ‘The Buffalo Whisperer’ and his wife Sherron, share their Texas home with 2,400lbs Wildthing and recent 900lbs arrival Bullet.
Both are still growing, and could reach up to 11ft tall and weigh as much as 2,500lbs.

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RC Bridges, nicknamed ‘The Buffalo Whisperer’ and his wife Sherron, share their Texas home with 2,400lbs Wildthing and recent 900lbs arrival Bullet

The two buffalo take up most of the living room when they decided to be indoors

Hop on: It’s a wonder the car hasn’t collapsed under the incredible weight of the buffalo
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And then they humped it.

The End.

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[SIZE=4]You little pest! Lion roars in pain as playful cub sinks her teeth into mother’s back[/SIZE]

Parents are regularly having their patience tested by mischievous children and it seems this is also the case in the animal world.
This lion cub was clearly in a playful mood when she decided to jump on her mother’s back.
The fun-loving youngster, about two months old, jumped on her mum and playfully sunk her teeth into her.

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Fun-loving: This lion club was clearly in a playful mood when she decided to jump on her mother’s back

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Agony: The cub, about two months old, jumped on her mum and playfully sunk her teeth into her, which looks like it caused the adult some pain

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Stunning: Amateur wildlife and landscape photographer Mark Dumbleton took the adorable images in the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya

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Playful: He has made a number of visits to parts of the wilderness in Africa to photograph wildlife and landscape. This image shows the lion cub fooling around with its mother

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[SIZE=4]The sneezing monkey (. . . and nine other species we never knew existed until now)[/SIZE]

They include a bearded monkey that sneezes when it rains, a bright blue tarantula and a millipede the size of a sausage.
All are among the top ten weird and wonderful creatures which until last year were unknown to science.
They were discovered mainly in remote parts of the world rarely visited by humans.

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The sneezing monkey! These creatures bury their head in their knees on rainy days

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Imagine this crawling on your pillow: The finds include Sazima’s tarantula is an iridescent blue spider found in Brazil

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Striking jellyfish Tamoya ohboya, with long red-and-white tails, and the night-blooming orchid also take a bow

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Deep underground lives the devil’s worm, the deepest living complex organism found so far

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The ‘Kollasmosoma sentum’ - with as yet no snappy colloquial name to call it - attacks ants on the ground

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The Spongebob Squarepants mushroom, named after everyone’s favourite cartoon sponge, is another new discovery

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This creepy worn, left, goes by the name of the ‘wandering leg sausage’. Right, the Nepalese poppy blooms at 13,000 feet

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The walking cactus, included in the list of top 10 new species, may be the ancestor of many of today’s insects

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[SIZE=4]Hello world! The magical moment rare Amazon river turtle hatches from egg in the palm of a hand[/SIZE]

A rare turtle takes its first glimpse of the world as it emerges from its egg - becoming one of the first to hatch from a special breeding scheme in a bid to reverse diminishing numbers.
The yellow-spotted Amazon river turtle, named after the spots on the side of its head, is one of the largest river turtles in South America with its shell growing up to 20 inches long.
But the species, once on the endangered list, is still classed as vulnerable and is constantly under threat from over-hunting, the pet trade and climate change.

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Cracking open: The moment a yellow-spotted Amazon river turtle hatches from its egg after being bred in a special programme at New York’s Rosamond Gifford Zoo

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Newborn: The baby yellow-spotted Amazon river turtle, named after the spots on the side of its head, currently fits in the palm of the hand but its shell will grow up to 20 inches long when it reaches adulthood

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Vulnerable: The baby turtles are on exhibit at the New York’s Rosamond Gifford Zoo but will eventually be transferred to zoos and aquariums around America

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[SIZE=4]Orphaned squirrel Bushytail finds new home with litter of newborn cats (and mother Oreo even nurses him)[/SIZE]

Though by nature, they’re predator and prey, a set of kittens and their mother have taken to an orphaned squirrel like he is one of them.
The squirrel was discovered by eight-year-old Bailee Schultz, who heard the squirrel whimpering a few weeks ago in a wooded area of his grandparents’ property in Bay County’s Bangor Township, Michigan.
Grandmother Stephanie Box told MLive.com Bailee brought her to the squirrel, which was under a nest and less than a week old.

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New family: A set of kittens and their mother have taken to an orphaned squirrel like he is one of them in Bay County’s Bangor Township, Michigan after Bailee Schultz, 8 heard the squirrel whimpering weeks ago

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Best friends: The boy told his grandmother Stephanie Box about the squirrel named Bushytail on her property and she placed it with her cat, Oreo, who recently gave birth to five kittens
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[SIZE=4]Rare shot of ‘jawfish’ shows battle-scarred father carrying the family in his mouth[/SIZE]

Most of us like to keep our families close – but the mottled jawfish takes it to an extreme, carrying its young in its mouth.

The fish rarely carry the eggs out in the open – and a Florida photographer was astonished to see one battle-scarred father taking the family for a jaunt across in Lake Worth Lagoon.

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The mottled jawfish is a mouthbreeder and so males carry their newborn fry in their mouths until they hatch to protect them from predators

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Mr Kovacs, 43, from Moore Haven, Florida, USA, said: ¿I had never seen anything like this in my life before. It is very unusual to come across a jawfish carrying its eggs out in the open.¿

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