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Toudi is thought to be the world's smallest Chihuahua. At 12 weeks old he weighs 300g and is 7cm high.

Wherever sharks swim in these shallow waters off Heron Island in Queensland, Australia they are guaranteed a clear path as scared fish move out of their way. The sharks aren't even attempting to eat any but the petrified fish don't want to risk becoming the dinner of the feared predator. Software engineer Scott Carr was looking for a picturesque spot for bridal pictures the day before his wedding when he came across the school of fish trying to avoid the lemon sharks.

Baby orangutan Diri eats a treat while climbing in his enclosure at Prague Zoo, Czech Republic

A lion and a lioness interact with each other in a cage at the Leningradsky Zoo in Saint Petersburg

A gosling peers out from beneath its mother's wings in Santa Clara, California

Doting mum Kimya cares for her 3-week-old newborn, who has recently been named Kanzi, at Melbourne Zoo. The youngster was the first gorilla baby born at the zoo since 2000 and is the product of the international endangered species breeding program. She has been named Kanzi, which means 'a treasure' in Swahili, after an online vote. Father Otana made the long journey from Melbourne to Howlett's Wild Animal Park in Kent in September 2013, while mother Kimya arrived a month later from her birthplace at Taronga Zoo.

This giraffe gives her young calf a nudge in the right direction

A one-month-old jaguar cub looks out of a bucket at the Leningradsky Zoo in Saint Petersburg

A pair of 1-month-old baby clouded leopard cubs are presented to the media by zoo keepers at the Olmense Zoo in Olmen, Belgium

Two dogs interact with each other during a group wedding for pet dogs at Purple Jade Villas in Beijing. A total of 21 dog "couples" walked down the aisle

Best friends 'Chai' the pug and 'Lola' the kitten wait to be given a new home at the Sydney Cats and Dogs Home in Sydney, Australia

A young visitor holds up her toy bunny to the aquarium glass in front of Aurora the Russian polar bear at the aquarium in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Two Russian polar bears, Aurora and Peregrino, were moved from the Kazan Zoo and arrived in the South American country in December. After four months of adaptation the two bears made their public debut on Thursday

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Home To 40,000 Monks

 I (Wanson Luk)could not believe there was such an amazing place on earth. I decided to visit this place at any cost. After doing some research, I found this is place called Sêrtar, located around 600km from Chengdu. It has the world’s biggest Buddhist school called Larung Gar Buddhist Academy, founded in 1980s starting from scratch.

Now, it inhabits over 40,000 monks and nuns who cope with tough climates everyday just to learn Buddhism.

It took me over 20 hours getting here from Chengdu, China via an endless bumpy road. The pain was gone once I arrive in this surreal world. Tibetan people visit there for worship, monks and nuns stay for learning. I cannot resist to share pictures of this place here.
Nuns traveling to school by walking down from 4000m

 

Night scene of the monastery

 

Nun dwellings where TV is not allowed. No toilet and heating system as well

 

Tibetan people share the same area with the monks and nuns

Everyone is so dedicated for praying

Inside the monastery

 

They pray by spinning the prayer wheel

 

Monks learning after school

 

Tibetan prostration

 

I just think that she looks graceful

 

Monks learning after school

 

The village accommodates around 40000 monks and nuns

 

Strong Man......Dai Guohong

Rare World War II Photos

Hell in the Pacific: Rare World War II photographs show American soldiers' fight for survival in brutal Battle of Saipan
By Lydia Warren
It is the little-known battle that claimed the lives of thousands of Americans during World War II.
But now black-and-white photographs, captured by Life magazine photographer W. Eugene Smith, show the everyday horrors for the U.S. soldiers fighting against Japanese forces on the Mariana Island of Saipan between June 15 and July 9, 1944.
Faces etched with the pain of their experiences, war-weary men are captured transporting their wounded comrades or forcing Japanese civilians from their hiding places.
 (Photo by W. Eugene Smith/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Long journey: U.S. soldiers drive the wounded from the front lines during the fight to take Saipan, Northern Marianas Islands, June 1944. In the first jeep, one soldier drives while a second holds up IV bags attached to two injured men strapped to the vehicle's hood
The photographs were taken during a battle that claimed the lives of 22,000 Japanese civilians - many by suicide - and nearly all 30,000 Japanese troops on the island. Of the 71,000 American troops who landed on Saipan, 3,426 perished, while more than 13,000 were wounded.
The battle was a turning point for the American battle against Japan's forces. The Japanese situation became so desperate that commanders pleaded with civilians to 'pick up their spears' and join the fight.


The destruction of the Pacific island is captured in the Life photographs, with bleak landscapes bearing the detritus of bombings and gunfire.
Many of the men in the photographs are faceless - their backs turned to the camera or faces obscured - highlighting the stark loneliness and anonymity of fighting on the front lines.

Helping hand: An American soldier offers his hand to a woman emerging from a cave where she had hidden with her child during the battle between Japanese and American forces for control of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands in July 1944 

Helping hand: A U.S soldier offers his hand to a woman leaving a cave where she had hidden with her child during the battle between Japanese and American forces
Tenderness: In a July 1944 photograph, an American Marine lifts a nearly dead infant from a cave where native islanders had been hiding during the battle for Saipan, while a second Marine watches from below 
Fight for survival: In a July 1944 photograph, an American Marine lifts a nearly dead infant from a cave where native islanders had been hiding during the battle for Saipan
Desperation: Saipan civilians commit suicide rather than surrendering to American troops. Around 1,000 civilians perished this way 
Desperation: Saipan civilians commit suicide rather than surrendering to American troops. Around 1,000 civilians perished this way
Medics tenderly patch together their wounded comrades as they lay in debris-scattered fields. In one photograph, soldiers show similar touching tenderness towards a wounded dog.
Another casualty of the war in the Pacific lies on a cot in a cathedral on Leyte, in the Philippines, waiting for treatment for the bullet wound in his stomach.
Smith also documents the struggles of the Japanese. A U.S. Marine cradles a near-dead infant he found face down under a rock while moving along Japanese soldiers hiding in caves on Saipan.
In another picture, Japanese civilians are shown jumping to their deaths from cliffs. Around 1,000 civilians killed themselves in this manner, jumping from 'Suicide Cliff' or 'Banzai Cliff' after propaganda led them to fear occupation under Americans.
Brothers in arms: On the Marianas Islands, an American soldier comforts a wounded comrade during the fight to take Saipan from Japanese troops 
Brothers in arms: On the Marianas Islands, an American soldier comforts a wounded comrade during the fight. More than 3,000 U.S. troops perished in the battle
Amer. Army nurse 2nd Lieut. Florence Vehmeier walking past GI w. bullet wound in his stomach & rubber tube taped to his lip which drains his stomach through his nose to bucket on the floor in makeshift hospital in Cens Cathedral, during WWII

American G.I.s treating wounded dog during WWII action on Orote Pennisula 
Wounded: An American soldier, a casualty of the war in the Pacific, lies on a cot in a cathedral on Leyte, the Philippines, waiting for treatment for a bullet wound in his stomach. U.S. medics show tenderness towards a dog harmed in the crossfire
Care: An American medic applies a field dressing to the neck of an injured soldier while another soldier in Tanapag, Saipan in June 1944. In the distance behind them, a soldier is visible in a foxhole 
Care: A U.S medic applies a field dressing to the neck of an injured soldier in Tanapag, Saipan in June 1944. In the distance behind them, a soldier is visible in a foxhole
Back up: While under fire, U.S. Marines advance on occupying Japanese forces in Tanapag, Saipan in June 1944 
Got his back: While under fire, U.S. Marines advance on occupying Japanese forces in Tanapag, Saipan in June 1944
Aircraft wreckage on beach (with American fleet in background) following US Marines' fierce battle against Japanese for Iwo Jima during WWII.

Wreckage on beach as man sleeps (?) in shelter after one of fierce battles against Japanese for Iwo Jima during WWII 
Debris: In another fight against Japanese forces, Smith captures aircraft wreckage on a beach. The photographs, taken following Marines' fierce battle against Japanese for Iwo Jima, capture one man sleeping under the debris, while American forces scour the beach

Hoisted to safety: In a photograph taken in Guam, a wounded American Marine is loaded onto an 'alligator' tracked amphibious vehicle for evacuation during fighting against Japanese troops 

Hoisted to safety: In a photograph taken in a separate battle against Japanese troops in Guam, Smith captures the moment a wounded American Marine is loaded onto an 'alligator' tracked amphibious vehicle for evacuation
Aerial view: A Grumman TBF-1 Avenger flies over fields bombed by U.S. soldiers at Japanese-occupied Tinian Island, Northern Mariana Islands, on June 30, 1944 
Aerial view: A Grumman TBF-1 Avenger flies over fields bombed by U.S. soldiers on the Japanese-occupied island on June 30, 1944
Grizzled, battle-weary, cigarette-smoking Marine PFC T. E. Underwood on Saipan during the fight to wrest the island from Japanese troops, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, July 1944

Weary American Marine, PFC T. E. Underwood, drinking from canteen while still under fire during the fierce battle for Saipan. (Photo by W. Eugene Smith//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images) 
War-weary: Marine PFC T. E. Underwood, is captured on Saipan during the fight to wrest the island from Japanese troops
Alone: A U.S. Marine, pictured in July 1944, looks at the bodies of dead Japanese soldiers killed during the battle for control of Saipan 
Alone: A Marine, pictured in July 1944, looks at the bodies of Japanese soldiers killed during the battle for control of Saipan. Nearly 30,000 Japanese troops died
American aircraft in flight during battle against Japanese for Iwo Jima during WWII. (Photo by W. Eugene Smith//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Soldiers manning fire hose to pump water onto a burning fuel dump, set ablaze by a Japanese counterattack during the waning days of the struggle for Leyte Island. (Photo by W. Eugene Smith//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images) 
Battle fields: American aircraft in flight during battle against Japanese for Iwo Jima,and during the struggle for Leyte Island.

Incredible Caves Where You Can Swim and Dive

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Brazil's Chapada Diamantina National Park is known for its waterfalls and caverns with colorful pools. One of these pools is Poco Azul (or the Blue Well), a flooded cave where visitors can swim in crystal-clear waters or glide around the remains of old submerged trees, still in excellent condition, according to Atlas Obscura. (Flickr/Otavio Nogueira) 

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 Diver and photographer Liz Rogers observes a fellow diver as she explores the Cathedral and the Chasm, part of Piccaninnie Ponds cave system in the Piccaninnie Ponds Conservation Park in South Australia and one of the country's top diving locations. The water is so clear here that there is a spot where it is possible to look up from 98 feet down and see clouds in the blue sky above. (Liz Rogers/Barcroft Media/Getty Images) 

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Located near the island of Vis in Croatia, the 'Green Cave' is one of two popular 'colorful' cave destinations in the area (the Blue Cave is also worth a visit). The Green Cave, accessible by boat, is known for for the visible green beam of light that penetrates through the opening on its roof and breaks on the sea surface, making it a unique place for swimming and snorkeling. (Flickr/www.yacht-rent.com) 

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With clear waters and an impressive diversity of sea life, Saipan is known for its incredible scuba diving sites. Most famous of these dive spots is The Grotto, a collapsed underwater cave. Divers sometimes encounter turtles, white tip sharks and clown triggerfish on this dive. (Flickr/Tetsuji Sakakibara)   

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One of the most popular attractions in Puerto Vallarta in Mexico is the stunning 'hidden beach' in the Marieta Islands. The site was formed by a collapse of the volcanic rock that makes up the island. Over time, a cave was created by the sea; and visitors have to swim through the tunnel in the cave to access the beach. (Mark D Callanan/Getty Images) 

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The most popular attraction in the island of Kastellorizo, Greece, the Blue Cave is known for its dazzling turquoise color, created by light of the sun, which is refracted through the sea, and reflected in the interior. There cave is accessible by small boats, which take visitors to the site for a swim in the clear waters. (Flickr/Tatsushi Okamoto)

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