Photo of the Day: Cool as Ice

Aussie, a 27-year-old polar bear at the Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Illinois, cools off with a large block of ice in his pool as temperatures hovered near the 100 mark. (Jim Schulz/Chicago Zoological Society) Click image to zoom.

Photo of the Day: Cheeky!

Arantxa Rus prepares to serve during her ladies’ singles second round match against Samantha Stosur at Wimbledon. (Mirror Online) Click image to zoom.

Photo of the Day: High-Wire Raccoon

This raccoon appeared highly-strung when it was spotted clinging onto a telegraph wire. Photographer Chuck Courson captured the worried-looking critter dangling 30ft in the air as it tried to evade a red-tailed hawk. But he didn’t get a dramatic series of escape shots as the raccoon was frozen to the spot and barely moved a whisker. (Mirror Online) Click image to zoom.

Photo of the Day: Seeing Red

Naked volunteers, pose for U.S artist Spencer Tunick in Munich. Click image to zoom.

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Photo of the Day: Open Wide

A zookeeper feeds a hippopotamus with forage wrapped in the shape of a rice dumpling (zongzi) to celebrate the upcoming Dragon Boat Festival at a wildlife zoo in Shenzhen, Guangdong province. (Mirror Online) Click image to zoom.

Photo of the Day: Feeding Time

A male common squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus) eats a banana inside an open air enclosure at Royev Ruchey zoo in the suburbs of Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. (Mirror Online)

Photo of the Day: Not this Time, Bro



Brendan Atkins, publications co-ordinator and editor at the museum, standing alongside a reconstructed model of a “diprotodon”, an ancient rhino-sized mega-wombat. (Mirror) Click image to zoom.

Photo of the Day: Fellows

A pigeon sits on top of a tortoise in the National Garden on June 15, 2012 in Athens, Greece. – i wouldn’t open my mouth if i were you young fellow! (Oli Scarff / Getty Images) Click image to zoom.

Photo of the Day: Welcome to the World

A young male jaguar peeking at the outdoors in San Diego. At more than a month old, the male and female jaguar cubs born to mother, Nindiri, are ready to spend some time in a large habitat at the San Diego Zoo. (Mirror Online) Click image to zoom.

Photo of the Day: Katy “the Butterfly”

Katy Perry performs during the 2012 Much Music Video Awards in Toronto. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press) Click image to zoom.

Photo of the Day: Traffic Jam

5,000 ducks block traffic on their way to feed in Zhejiang province in China. The farmer and his assistants drove the ducks from their farm to a pond one kilometer away to look for food. (Rex) Click iamge to zoom.

Photo of the Day: You are on Camera!

An ostrich stands in his enclosure in the zoo in Berlin on Friday, May 11, 2012. (Photo by Andreas Prost/AP) Click image to zoom.

Photo of the Day: Yorkshire Terrier on Horseback

I couldn’t find a source and author, but this is really cute! Click image to zoom.

Photo of the Day: Defend the Sea

More than 5,000 Los Angeles kids, teachers and volunteers form a massive kid-designed shark and shield that reads “Defend the Sea” from everyday plastic trash as part of the 19th annual Kids Ocean Day Adopt-A-Beach Clean-Up sponsored by the Malibu Foundation, City of Los Angeles and the California Coastal Commission June 7, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. The kids are alerting the world about the need to protect the ocean from everyday trash and plastic litter that flow down streets, killing marine life and polluting food resources. (Lou Dematteis/Spectral Q) Click image to zoom.

Photo of the Day: The High Dive

Nine-time world champion Orlando Duque of Colombia dives 23 meters from a helicopter next to Ashford Castle during a training session in build up to the 2012 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series at Cong, West of Ireland, Ireland. The series begins in Corsica, France on June 24. (AFP/Red Bull)

Photo of the Day: Pink Lake

Aerial photograph of salt-collecting boats on Lake Retba, Senegal. (Barcroft)

Photo of the Day: Could this be the World’s New Fattest Cat?

Janet Ciminelli of North Shore Animal League of America holds Garfield in Long Island, New York City. (Barcroft)

Photo of the Day: Burned Forest

In a photo provided by the U.S. Forest Service, a section of the Gila National Forest lay barren and smoking Saturday as a result of the largest wildfire in New Mexico’s recorded history. The Whitewater-Baldy Complex fire has scorched more than 377 square miles. (Kari Greer/U.S. Forest Service) Click image to zoom.

Photo of the Day: The Aurora Australis from Space

This image released by NASA shows the Aurora Australis, accompanied by star streaks and air glow, recorded by one of the Expedition 31 crew members May 22, 2012 when the orbital outpost was above a point on Earth located about 290 miles southeast of southern New Zealand. Two Russian spacecraft docked to the station are seen in the foreground. (NASA) Click image to zoom.

Photo of the Day: Bear vs Camera

A grizzly bear is caught destroying camera equipment in Yellowstone National Park. (Barcroft Media)

Photo of the Day: A Girl on the Ocean



Winnie Pajcic, 9, holds on to a railing as she leans back in the wind during a visit to Stockton Park in Ortega, Florida, in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Beryl, whhich came ashore early Monday near Jacksonville Beach with near-hurricane-strength winds of 70 mph. (Kelly Jordan/The Florida Times-Union) Click image to zoom.

Photo of the Day: 2012 Solar Eclipse

An annular solar eclipse occurs as the moon passes between the Earth and the sun as partially seen at sunrisefrom the coastal township of Gumaca, Quezon province, 187 kilometers (116 miles) southeast of Manila, Philippines. (AP)

Photo of the Day: Dolphins Compete For The Highest Jump

Bottlenose dolphins leaping at sunset in Bahamas. (Barcroft)

Photo of the Day: Penguins Of Antarctica

A King penguin looks into the viewfinder of a camera in Antarctica. (Barcroft)