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These insects look like they’re an acrobatic display team as they perform a series of daring highwire stunts on a twig. The performance started with one praying mantis clambering onto another’s back and being lifted above her head. Photographer Arif Avize watched as the mantis then balanced on one leg and shuffled gently to remain balanced. The 38-year-old found these two female praying mantises while out for a walk in his home town of Kahramanmaras, Turkey. He says: “They were having a duel but seemed to be doing acrobatics.”

Picture: Arif Avize/ Solent News (via Pictures of the day: 2 August 2011 - Telegraph)