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 group of otters put on a show of aqua aerobics, as they raise their flippers perfectly in sync .
CAUSING a splash, this determined kingfisher goes hunting for dinner .
THIS LITTLE squirrel tries to keep himself snug as snow starts to fall around him .
BOXING DAY has come early for this pair of feisty squirrels, as their Christmas party quickly turns sour .
What lies beneath this building site? Britain's great hope of winning the pre-WW2 arms race against Nazi Germany .
AN ANGRY giraffe gave a bush-riding cyclist a scare when he stomped his £2K bike into the dirt .
This frozen lighthouse in Michigan could easily be mistaken for a still from the snow swept disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow .
EXPERTLY camouflaged, this clever panther chameleon knows how to catch its prey by surprise .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
With an abandoned tricycle sitting in an empty corridor, this derelict but once grand mansion could be the setting for The Shining .
Balanced on one leg, a frog assumes the crane kick martial arts stance made famous in the movie The Karate Kid .
