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.
Sam Notaro built his own flood defences to protect his four-bedroom home in Moorland, Somerset Flooding is likely to get worse around Somerset as groundwater levels continue to rise .
A SPECTACULAR array of stars fills the night sky as they soar over this active volcano .
The claws come out at meal time as a group of white tailed eagles brawl over road-kill .
HUDDLED together in the hollow of a tree, it would be easy to overlook these two sleepy owls as they blend into the trunk .
Armed with a snorkel, flippers and her skimpy bikini, an intrepid female free diver swims alongside an array of reef sharks .
WELCOME to the 125 decibel boombox bus that could damage your hearing if you party too close to its giant speakers .
Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .
A once bustling gold rush town in Mono County, California now stands completed deserted .
EAGERLY BITING his nails, this little squirrel is clearly nervous of looming predators as he searches for his meal .
STEPFORD wives from the 1950's and 60's are performing history's most sexist exercise programme .
SHOWING off her best assets for the camera, this cheeky orangutan is in the mood for love, puckering up her lips to blow the biggest kiss she can .
FROM KISSING an alligator on the nose to walking over broken glass, this fearless daredevil is a real life female JACKASS .