A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post. These adorable photographs of two playful bear cubs and their watchful mum were captured by American nature photographer D. Robert Franz, 56, on a visit to Lake Clark National Park, Alaska. 'What we see in these photographs is the interaction between the mother brown bear and her two cubs,' says D. Robert, of Cody, Wyoming.
AN ADORABLE one-eyed kitten has been dubbed the 'pirate cat' because of his pirate-like facial expressions .
An Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .
WRAPPED up in classy headscarves, these adorable pooches are the picture of sophistication .
A KITTEN'S teaparty and rat's playing dominoes are the bizarre creations by one of Britain's great eccentrics pictured in an incredible new book .
SOARING through the air, this is the moment a hungry tawny owl arrives home with dinner .
MAKING himself at home, this little snail perches happily on top of this frog's head .
THIS is the EXPLOSIVE moment when a 50 metre high pylon came crashing down to earth in a rural field .
This tranquil setting stretches for miles as the sun sets behind the mountain .
CARRYING a fully grown goat on his back, this five-year-old boy is a child shepherd in the mountains of northern Ethiopia .
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .
BEAUTIFULLY lit by the dim glow of lanterns, a cave in Iceland is transformed into the perfect wedding venue .
While often referred to as the kings of the jungle, gorillas - for all their might - are notorious hydrophobes .