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.
VENTURING into the ocean with self-made spears and nets, the fishermen of Zanzibar put their lives on the line when they catch food for their families .
LYING flat out on his back, this little meerkat makes the most of the English sunshine .
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ALL IS not as it seems in these deceptive cityscapes .
COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them .
A photographer has captured stunning photographs of the Milky Way above picturesque landscapes in the UK and Italy .
A SPECTACULAR array of stars fills the night sky as they soar over this active volcano .
STARING open-mouthed into the camera, this shocked fish looks out of place in the middle of its angry friends .
Jostling their quills into the noses of some unlucky cubs, this is the moment two feisty porcupines ALMOST defeat a pride of seven lions .
FROM THE world famous Girl with a Pearl Earring painting to a jaguar in the grass, these incredible drawings are created from coloured ballpoint pens .
FORGET Thorpe Park this summer as this is a 50 mile-per-hour ride over the Colorado River CANYON .
LIFTING their heads high and bumping beaks, these aggressive pelicans clash over fish .