سال 2016 کی تصویروں میں جانوروں کی یہ تصاویر بازی لے گئیں

مریم زبیری

شائع 30 دسمبر 2016 09:34am

فائل فوٹو

سال کے اختتام پر جہاں مختلف اہم واقعات کی تصاویر منظر پر آرہی ہیں وہیں کچھ ایسی تصاویر بھی سامنے آئی ہیں جن کو دیکھ کر یقیناً آپ کو حیرت کے ساتھ خوشگوار احساس بھی ہوگا۔

اگر 2016 کی تمام تصویروں کا موازنہ کیا جائے تو پہلے نمبر کی حقدار جانوروں کی درج ذیل دی گئی یہ تصاویر ہوں گی۔

A red squirrel adopts a ninja-like pose reminiscent of the 80s blockbuster Karate Kid as he squares up to another rodent during a fight. The pair of squirrels were fighting over some seeds that had been thrown onto the snow in Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada.

A ray joins Sea life London Aquarium aquarist Rebecca Carter for a quick 'selfie' during the annual January deep clean

Getting carried away: Photographer Lindsay Crossley caught the moment an unlucky frog was carried off by a hungry heron on the moors near Bacup, Lancashire. The helpless amphibian appears to fling out its limbs in a desperate bid to raise the alarm.

A giant panda cub falls from the stage while 23 giant pandas born in 2016 are seen on a display at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China

A group of children encounter a polar bear at the Cochrane Polar Bear Habitat in Ontario, Canada. The unique tank allows visitors to be just inches away from the giant beasts - while safely behind bulletproof glass.

Austin Rover: A bull mastiff relaxes in his owner's van in King's Cross, London

Lounge lizards Baby Love and Buddy Love take it easy at an outdoor cafe in Beverly Hills in California. Henry Schifberg, now legally known as Henry Lizardlover, keeps up to 50 reptiles in his home.

The surfs up for Kuli the one-eyed surfing cat, seen here hanging around 'out the back' with owner Alexandra Gomez in Honolulu, Hawaii

'There's a starling whaling in the sky': A murmuration of migrating starlings form the shape of a whale as they cross the sky in southern Israel

Larry the Downing Street cat poses for Telegraph photographer Eddie Mulholland beneath the Downing Street Christmas tree

This stunning photo of thousands of fireflies illuminating a forest on the Japanese island of Shikoku won the Open category at the 2016 Sony World Photography Awards

Tongue lashing: A veiled chameleon captures a tasty dragonfly with its extra long tongue

Jim Kowalczik plays with Jimbo, a 1500-pound Kodiak bear, at the Orphaned Wildlife Center in Otisville, N.Y.

A jay picks kernels in the forest on the outskirts of Novogrudok, 150 km (93 miles) west of the capital Minsk, Belarus

A greedy chipmunk has bitten off more than she can chew after stuffing her mouth with a monkey nut. The hungry striped rodent called Mimi was photographed in Port Credit, Ontario, Canada.

Have you seen the rook?: A jay and a squirrel look engrossed in a game of chess in a snowy Russian forest

Angela Bohlke won Overall and On the Land category in the Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2016 with this image of a fox face planting in the snow in Yellowstone National Park, USA

Bornean orangutan called Cantik plays with some string at Usti nad Labem Zoo in the Czech Republic

Ellie Gelding: A horse has been spotted sporting a stunning blonde mane that looks like it could be a wig. The horse was photographed by Batzaya Choijiljav in Mongolia (or Manegolia?) where temperatures drop to -40 degrees during winter.

A tiny sloth that became stuck on the central reservation of a motorway and clung to the crash barrier for dear life, has tugged heartstrings around the world. It was spotted in the city of Quevedo, Ecuador, after becoming trapped by traffic passing on either side at high speed.

A grief stricken kangaroo cradles the head of a dead female next to her joey photographed by Evan Switzer on a bushland property in River Heads, Queensland, Australia

Between the sheets: A possum has been found bedding down inside a toilet roll holder in a public lavatory in Victoria, Australia. Thankfully, rangers were able to gently extract the 'sitting tenant' and rehome it in a tree-based nesting box.