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.
HUDDLING under a leaf, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls take shelter from the rain .
A lazy otter finds the ideal spot to soak up the sun and sleep off his lunch .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
Swimming side by side with divers, these manatees will do anything they can to stay warm .
An artist has transformed traditional Thanksgiving dinners into mini-masterpieces .
Most people bend over backwards to keep children entertained, but this baboon show us how it’s done .
SNEAKING slowly into the water, this Bengal tiger plans a vicious attack on three unsuspecting deer .
TOMORROW (Saturday) marks the 28th anniversary of the nuclear disaster that left the city of Chernobyl devastated .
This cheeky macaque gets up close and personal as he examines the dental hygiene of his fellow primate .
HUDDLED together on a branch, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls soak up the sun .
NEW DELHI, A woman activist of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party crosses a police barricade near the residence of ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi during a protest against the recent rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, April 21, 2013 .
DIVING down at a speed of 75mph, this is the moment a hungry osprey caught his prey .