When you're young you are desirous to investigate the environment, to play around and to learn something every day. But, no one is born with life experience and everyone has to learn from his mistakes, even this animal which was born with natural built-in instincts.
This young leopard has discovered in a hard way how it feels when you try to mess around with a porcupine. Sooner or later he will learn that it is better for him to find something more tasty than this bunch of needles for a lunch.
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Tis the season to be FURRY: We present the cutest animal pictures you will see all Christmas
- Collection of pictures shows a variety of animals braving the wintery weather to venture out into the cold
- One indulgent squirrel greedily tucks into a mince pie while another eyes up a Christmas jumper
- Hazel the search dog receives gifts in Afghanistan while Kali the polar bear orphan slides around in make-shift sled
This festive collection ofimages proves it's not just humans who enjoy tucking in to one too many mince pies, wearing garish festive attire and playing around in the snow.
Because as the storms continue to rage outside, these hardy creatures have well and truly embraced the winter weather and are lapping-up all the best elements of Christmas.
One squirrel who's clearly not watching his weight greedily gobbles down a mince pie, while another, more health conscious creature, daintily reaches out for some berries.
Meanwhile, one very over-excited dog is clearly loving his Father Christmas hat - bounding down the hallways of the Battersea Dogs Home with an excited look on its face, while another squirrel looks longingly at a royal blue festive jumper.
Elsewhere, a selection of birds do some last minute food shopping - picking up some festive essentials and taking them back to their nests.
And then there's the Kali polar bear, who looks blissfully happy playing around in the snow and Hazel, the search dog in Afghanistan who's thrilled at her gifts.
Treating yourself, are we? One peckish squirrel in Glasgow looks lovingly at a mince pie that he holds greedily between his paws
Go on, it's Christmas! The hungry animal manages to fit almost all of the pie into his mouth as it takes in the view across Kelvingrove Park, Scotland
Gwyneth would be proud: This Canadian squirrel seems to be practising its yoga skills - ala Gyneth Paltrow - as it reaches out for some healthy berries
From Saturn's hexagonal storm to the penguin-shaped nebula: MailOnline showcases the most stunning space images of 2013
- 2013 was the year of the Twitpic with ISS astronauts sharing hundreds of incredible images of Earth from space
- Amateurs gave space agencies a run for their money with close-up images of the sun taken from their back garden
- Meanwhile, billion pound telescopes explored the darker reaches of our galaxy revealing some unexpected shapes
From Mars' 'Grand Canyon' to a penguin-shaped nebula, this year's breath-taking space photography has taken us on an incredible journey through the mysterious depths of our galaxy.
But it wasn't just cutting-edge space telescopes that provided stunning images - amateur photographers and astronauts have also helped reveal previously unseen views of our universe.
Leading the way was former commander of the International Space Station (ISS) Chris Hadfield who, throughout the year, shared intimate details of his life in space with his army of Twitter followers.
This captivating image of the Orion nebula reveals an area of our galaxy as a bustling neighbourhood of recently formed stars, hot gas and dark dust. The nebula is visible to the unaided eye as a small fuzzy patch in the constellation of Orion
One of his most impressive photos was an shot of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge taken from his lofty perch on the ISS 200 miles above Earth.
As well as San Francisco's landmark, Hadfield - who has described the shifting view of the earth from windows of the space station as 'a perpetual magnet' - snapped the bright lights of Manhattan at night, the 'endless' golden beaches of Australia and 'cauliflower' clouds sitting over the Amazon.
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In an exclusive interview with the MailOnline earlier this month, the Canadian astronaut revealed that he took over 40,000 photos during his five month stint on the spaceship, with unseen photography expected to be released by Nasa next year.
Up until this year, images taken of Saturn's hexagonal storm have been in infrared wavelengths, showing false-colour shades of red, orange and green. In October, Cassini, which has been orbiting the planet for over nine years, captured the northern hexagon in its true, incredible colours
Mark Gee's image of the Milky Way came first in the Earth and Space Category in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year awards. The shot shows central regions of the Milky Way Galaxy - over 26,000 light years away - appearing as a tangle of dust and stars, lit up by a lighthouse on the Cape Palliser, New Zealand, shining out to sea
Britain's littlest shepherd, aged two, a lamb called Twinkle - and a bond between boy and sheep that will melt your heart
- Arthur Jones, two, looks after his own six-strong herd on Dorset farm
- Arthur, who has cerebral palsy, walks thanks to his sheep Twinkle
- He is Britain's youngest shepherd and has won several prizes
Boxing Day morning is traditionally a time for long sleeps and leisurely breakfasts. But while most of Britain takes it easy after yesterday's festivities, little Arthur Jones will be out in the Dorset countryside mending fences.
Many winter mornings have seen him out in the fields, hammering tacks into a post, wearing his favourite tweed cap.
He also feeds the sheep, rattling a tiny pail containing a handful of pellets. 'Come on Twinkle!' he calls to a ewe with a dense white fleece and a calm demeanour, who dutifully trots across to him.
Cuteness overload: Arthur Jones, two-and-a-half, with his lamb Twinkle and his miniature crook
So far, so ordinary for a hard-working farmhand. But Arthur is just two years old. As Britain's youngest shepherd, he has been herding and caring for his own little flock of six pedigree sheep for almost a year now, under the tutelage of his grandma Nicky Jesse, one of the country's few shepherdesses. She'll be out there with him today, taking the lead as they mend the fences.
Arthur is a bit of a celebrity in shepherding circles. He is the youngest ever member of the Poll Dorset and Dorset Horn Sheep Breeders' Association, has won three prizes in county shows and has even been introduced to the Countess of Wessex.
His mum Sarah — Nicky's daughter — has many reasons to be proud of him; not least because he was born two-and-a-half months prematurely and has cerebral palsy.
His lower body has been affected by the condition: doctors warned that he would not walk until he was four.
But Arthur had other plans: this September he took his first steps unaided, and Nicky is certain his exceptional progress can be attributed to the extraordinary bond between him and Twinkle.
Little shepherd: The tiny farmboy feeds on of the lambs at his grandmother's
Winning: Arthur Jones with his grandmother Nicky Jesse (and Twinkle) being awarded highly commended at the New Forest Show
Harvest for the Patient Farmer
Have you ever wondered where that cork in your bottle of wine comes from? The answer is most likely to be Spain or Portugal, where over half of the world's cork is harvested - it is in fact the National Tree of the latter country.
However, unlike other forms of forestry, the production of cork never involves the death of a tree.
Instead, they are gently stripped, leaving a strange but fascinating landscape of denuded trunks.
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