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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STARING eagerly into the camera, this little toad is full of curiosity .
VIBRANT bursts of colour fill the screen as beautiful flowers blossom in these time-lapse videos .
BASKING in smug satisfaction, a confident squirrel gives a wink to the camera .
HUDDLING under a leaf, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls take shelter from the rain .