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 BROWN bear wades through waters in Alaska and waits for his lunch .
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A trio of ants are locked in a tug of war over a fly as they pull the bug by its legs .
An Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .
A curious red squirrel takes a break from collecting nuts and tries her hand at photography .
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SITTING quietly at the edge of the lake, these two baby bears watch and learn as the adults hunt for fish .
Lying angelically with a range of expressions etched on their tiny faces, little bundles of joy are innocently captured in their first few days in these adorable photographs .
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