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.
Families in an Indian slum put their lives on the line by living on top of an ACTIVE railway track .
AN ANGRY giraffe gave a bush-riding cyclist a scare when he stomped his £2K bike into the dirt .
These photographs of extreme weather capture storms furiously rolling across the sky above America .
PUSHING the diver out of his way, this little sea turtle shows he’s not in the mood for photographs .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
EXPERTLY camouflaged, this clever panther chameleon knows how to catch its prey by surprise .
A soap bubble lands on the frosty ground and creates a shimmering snow globe as crystals form around it .
This is the amazing moment two white-tailed kites take an in-flight meal - exchanging prey at 100 foot high in mid air .
TRYING their best to wriggle away, three adorable tiger cubs receive their health checks at Chester Zoo .
POWERFUL bolts of lightning illuminate the night sky in an incredible autumn storm over the Sardinian coastline .
A dog was SOW close to death after she dangerously swallowed a two-inch NEEDLE-Cute Shih Tzu Daisy could have pierced her intestines after eating the long needle and thread after finding it on the carpet .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .