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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A cheeky owl fancies a game of hide and seek as it peeps out from behind a tree .
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As sunlight cascades through its vibrant stained glass windows, every inch of the Nasir-ol-Mulk Mosque bursts with colour .
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A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .
A cheeky gorilla sticks her tongue out and plays up for the camera at Bronx Zoo .
WITHOUT A care in the world, this little snow monkey puts his feet up and settles in for a snooze .
Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .
A young orangutan comes over all shy as she hides her face behind a broken bucket .
An Italian photographer travelled to Chile where he visited several star-gazing sites, home to some of the world's most advanced telescopes, located in the spectacular setting of the Atacama desert .