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.
Throwing their arms up in the air, these energetic squirrels play a game of ball with a walnut .
Throwing a right hook as he launches onto his opponent with his gnarling teeth at the ready, this is the OTTER-LY ruthless showdown between two otters .
FLAUNTING its new accessory, a fashionable green dumpy tree frog poses for the camera while wearing a SNAIL as a hat .
HUDDLED together on a branch, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls soak up the sun .
Families in an Indian slum put their lives on the line by living on top of an ACTIVE railway track .
HUNDREDS of hot air balloons decorate the sky above Turkey as the rising sun illuminates the spectacular scenery below .
STARING intently into the camera, a polar bear appears to be lost in thought while relaxing in the snow .
STRIKING photos capture nature at its most raw and powerful during Earth’s most electrifying event .
MASKED intruders look sinister but really they are a gang of urban exploring pranksters .
This cheeky macaque gets up close and personal as he examines the dental hygiene of his fellow primate .
