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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THEIR gnarling teeth at the ready, these two baboons fight it out for the last piece of fruit .
The claws come out at meal time as a group of white tailed eagles brawl over road-kill .
A BUMPER season of births has left zoo with three of the cutest exotic kittens you're likely to see .
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A Canadian couple celebrated their engagement by recreating iconic moments from the film The Notebook .
HUNDREDS of hot air balloons decorate the sky above Turkey as the rising sun illuminates the spectacular scenery below .
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A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .