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 OLD ENGLISH cottage packed full of history and valuables has been left to rot .
Armed with a snorkel, flippers and her skimpy bikini, an intrepid female free diver swims alongside an array of reef sharks .
ARM extended and head flung back, this little chipmunk performs a loose-limbed yoga move .
This hungry white tiger has just one thing on her mind - to taste fresh meat .
SQUABBLING over the last piece of grain, these hungry squirrels are determined to stock up on as much food as possible .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .
An American black bear mimics John Travolta’s famous Saturday Night Fever dance move by hurling its arm in the air .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .
GETTING behind the camera, this monkey practices his photography skills on his friends .