pictures from 'planet earth'

3. Vampire squid

7. An elephant swims in the flooded Okavango

8. Underwater cameraman Doug Allan films mother and baby humpback whales off Tonga in the South Pacific

9. Huli tribes people from Papua New Guinea

10. Cameraman filming in flooded caves in the Yucatan, Mexico

11. Stalactites cave in Wales, UK

12. Baobab trees in Madagascar

13. Tigress coming around tree in Rajasthan, India

14. World's highest waterfall, Angel Falls, in Venezuela

15. Fungus on rainforest floor

16. Lions hunting African elephants in Savute National Park, Botswana

17. Kiang wild ass, Tibet

18. Wildebeest herd grazing on savanna, Masai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya

19. Lions at watering hole

20. Aerial view of flooded Okavango delta, Botswana

21. Iceberg & Emperor penguins in Antarctica

22. Polar bear cubs following mother on ice Hudson Bay, Canada

24. Iceberg & southern aurora lights

25. Portrait of five male elephants walking by a mountain of sand

26. Yardang rock formation, Egypt

27. Sand storm Trinity