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.
A disabled sheep is enjoying a new fleece of life after receiving a specially-designed wheelchair .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
A photographer has captured stunning photographs of the Milky Way above picturesque landscapes in the UK and Italy .
WELCOME to the Temple of Zoom where you can “experience” sliding down a Mayan temple into shark infested waters .
SWIMMING next to 40 tonne whales, dare-devil divers take the plunge with these gentle giants of the sea .
A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .
A curious red squirrel takes a break from collecting nuts and tries her hand at photography .
Blonde teen Jess Stubbs has certainly got girl power - as Britain’s youngest TRUCKER .
A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish .
DIVING down at a speed of 75mph, this is the moment a hungry osprey caught his prey .