Animal Pictures: 15 May 2011

Each week, people continue to discover amazing animal pictures.

The courageous shark expert, Michael Rutzen, 40, has captured amazing scenes of a great white shark breaching in the oceans when it is hunting a smaller seal in False Bay, South Africa on Monday (May 9). The 40-year-old expert was brave enough to spot close-up pictures of sharks leaping up to 13 feet out of the water. In the stunning hunting, no seals are hunted or hurt. For a long time, Seal Island in False Bay, 30km south of Cape Town is considered as the best place to watch this huge animal. This is also the place where scientists acknowledge that great white shark behaves differently, including the highly unusual behavior of breaching than any other sites else in the world.

Animal Picture 1: Great white shark breaching seal in False Bay, South Africa

Animal Picture 2: A baby baboon named Sekani is riding on his mother’s back in Auckland Zoo in New Zealand

Animal Picture 3: Baby elephant Nuka celebrates its first birthday in the zoo in Hanover, Germany

Animal Picture 4: A couple of kingfishers are seen mating in a pool in Droitwich, Worcestershire.

Animal Picture 5: A pair of Northern Gannets is conducting a courtship at the RSPB's Bempton Cliffs on the East Yorkshire coast.

Animal Picture 6: The lovely dolphin called Cessol smiles and blows bubbles in the Planete Sauvage wildlife park in Port Saint Pere.

Animal Picture 7: The Western Lowland gorilla named Kishi holds her new-born baby at the Port Lympne Wild Animal Park in Kent.

Animal Picture 8: A baby elephant is playing with the mother in the Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage in Sri Lanka

Animal Picture 9: New-born little darks are looking for food in the water of Abbotsbury Swannery in Dorset

Animal Picture 10: A hummingbird is flying through water coming from a garden sprinkler. The picture is taken in a garden in Oregon, USA.

Animal Picture 11: Humboldt penguins are spotted swimming together in a zoo in German city of Heidelberg.

Animal Picture 12: A lioness is chasing a leopard in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Kgalagadi, South Africa.