Environmental Graffiti

Mid-Air OM NOM NOM NOM

We’re used to seeing flying animals like birds, insects and even bats taking wing and soaring through the air, leaving us to curse the fact that we weren’t born with the same innate superpower. We’ve also featured a few of nature’s gliders here on EG – creatures like the flying tree snake, flying fish, and sugar glider – but are yet to focus on those beasties that use jumping as a form of movement and means of getting airborne to catch their next meal.

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Animals Menace Photographers

On the one hand, being a wildlife photographer sounds like the greatest job in the world. Travelling to far-flung destinations in search of amazing fauna, then getting all outdoorsy as you prepare to take the perfect animal shot. On the other hand, however, one might foresee certain risks attached to the profession, not least for those trying to take pictures of the larger, more aggressive or carnivorous of our creature kin – and particularly when going in for a close-up.

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Death is Milliseconds Away…

This photo makes you want to shout, "He's behind you!", because you know that there cute little robin is as good as a goner. Yet we are often most keen to watch animals in their natural setting when they are busy gobbling one another up. The photos collected here add something else to the whole guzzling theme, capturing creatures enjoying their lasts moments in this world before the jaws of death close on them forever.

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Surviving a Shark Attack: Poke its Eyes Out and its Jaws Will Loosen.

Great White Attacks its prey. Image by 126 club Jason Cull, 37, is a lucky swimmer that managed to escape a ferocious shark attack. A 16 foot Great White, attacked him while swimming at the Middleton Beach on Australia’s southwestern coast on Sunday.

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