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.
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DIVING down at a speed of 75mph, this is the moment a hungry osprey caught his prey .
A terrified moose, trapped in a frozen lake, bobs her head above the icey water and awaits her rescue .